At 4:50 PM +0100 10/5/01, William Overington wrote:
> >>Of course ligation control is font-specific. That is why the ZWJ solution
>However, I feel that the availability of ligatured characters in a font at a
>specific official Unicode code point would be useful for the specific use of
>a person to be able to encode the ligature information directly, so that he
>or she may transcribe the typography of an eighteenth century printed book
>directly "metal type sort to unicode character" and print out the text.
This is *precisely* the sort of problem Unicode is intended *not* to
solve. Unicode doesn't do typography.
--John H. Jenkins jenkins@apple.com jenkins@mac.com http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/
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