Re: [OpenType] Proposal: Ligatures w/ ZWJ in OpenType

From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Sat Jul 20 2002 - 12:00:12 EDT


On Friday, July 19, 2002, at 07:48 PM, Asmus Freytag wrote:

> Since (up to now) most desktop applications had no way of producing
> ligatures (they are not in the popular code pages) the problem did not
> pose itself. OpenType is changing that.
>

Obligatory rant: It isn't just OpenType. Now that AAT support is showing
up at the UI level on the Mac, people are getting dialogs, menus, and all
their typed text forming ligatures automatically.

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John H. Jenkins
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