Re: ct, fj and blackletter ligatures

From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 22:14:26 EST

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On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 02:18 AM, William Overington wrote:

> Well, I suppose it depends upon what one means by a file format that
> supports Unicode. The TrueType format does not support the ZWJ method
> and
> thus does not "provide means to access unencoded glyphs by transforming
> certain strings of Unicode characters into them".

TrueType fonts are perfectly capable of supporting ligatures.
OpenType, AAT, and Graphite all use TrueType fonts, and all support
ligatures.

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