Re: [latina] ligatures

From: Paul Norton <paul paulnorton org>
To: Wouter Bolsterlee <uws+gnome xs4all nl>
Cc: gnome-latin-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [latina] ligatures
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:27:47 -0800

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 14:38 +0100, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
> The Gnome-NL team decided *against* using the ij/ĳ (U+0133 LATIN SMALL
> LIGATURE IJ) ligature for various reasons:
> 
>  - hard to type
>  - hard to search/grep for
>  - it's *ugly* in many fonts because it will need to fallback to another font
>  - Unicode ligatures are evil (see below for why)

Could you expand on this fourth bullet? 

> Ligatures are on the typographical/rendering level, not on the syntactic
> level, so the rendering engine should take care of it. I do not know about
> the features Pango has in this area, nor do I know how widely spread decent
> ae/æ and oe/œ glyphs are in fonts, compared to to the ij/ĳ glyphs.

I think at this point I don't have an informed opinion to express either
way, though I'm certain I will once we've made some progress over time.

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