Re: switching off ligatures?

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 09:40 -0400, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> how do you get Pango to switch off using ligatures in latin language?
> 
> I have a user that gets weird ligatures when using a particular TTF 
> windows font in lilypond. (The ft in "heeft" looks like a @ or similar)
> 
> I suspect that this is a non-opentype TTF font (without GSUB table?). I 
> think the easiest fix is to add a switch to disable ligatures. How do I 
> do that? Set a different PangoLanguage for the context?

We don't do any ligature substitution (or any substitution FWIW) with
non-OpenType fonts.  If the font is broken, fix that.  No Pango feature
here.

behdad

> thanks,
> 
> Han-Wen
> 
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