From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Fri Nov 23 2007 - 15:00:07 CST
On Nov 23, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:
> The common wisdom about Latin ligatures seems to be to avoid the
> presentation forms, and to insert ZWJ between the two "normal"
> letters (or do nothing and expect the software to ligate
> automatically, which is much more problematic). I would be
> surprised if this were any different for Armenian.
>
Actually, the common wisdom about Latin ligatures is to avoid the
presentation forms and to use whatever ligature controls your rich-
text system provides. ZWJ is "designed for marking the unusual cases
where ligatures...are required. [It is] not to be used in all cases
where ligatures...are desired; instead, [it is] meant only for
overriding the normal behavior of text." (TUS p. 537) And yes,
Armenian is the same.
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John H. Jenkins
jenkins@apple.com
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