Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Ligature support

[Richard Hamilton <rlhamilton@frii.com>]

As far as I know, there isn't an option in the DocBook style sheets to
generate ligatures.

I'm far from an expert, but I would in general expect that this is
probably better done as a function of the fo processor. I believe XEP
4.2 will handle ligatures if you tell it which ones the font has, and if
the font uses standard unicode ligatures. However, I'm pretty sure fop
does not currently handle ligatures.

Hope that helps,
Dick Hamilton
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On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 20:27 +0200, Bela Hausmann wrote:
> That's what I'm doing now. I thought there may be a feature which would 
> automatically recognized ligatures and replace them with the appropriate 
> Unicode chars, like in LaTeX.
> 
> Bela
> 
> On Monday 24 May 2010 19:49:59 you wrote:
> > Bela Hausmann [mailto:post@belahausmann.name] wrote:
> > > is there any support for ligatures[1] in DocBook?
> > 
> > In what sense? If you use the Unicode ligature characters in your source
> > files and publish with Unicode tools, they should be processed as normal
> > characters. I don't think this has anything to do with DocBook directly.
> > 
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