Re: Ligatures and Pango?

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

The OpenType fonts declare which ligatures they have.  I think
it will be solved by the patch in this bug:

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101079

I'll look into it soon.

behdad

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> what should I do to make Pango create ligatures for roman fonts, eg. fl
> and fi from normal text?  I guess that I can get them if I use the right
> unicode characters in the UTF-8 input, but is there a way to automate
> this, so the ligatures are only selected if the font supports them?
>
>

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