bugFree UCS Outline Fonts - Bugs: bug #22993, IJ not a ligature

 
 

bug #22993: IJ not a ligature

Submitted by:  Steve White <Stevan_White>
Submitted on:  Sun 20 Apr 2008 11:00:55 AM UTC  
 
Category: font infoSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: character substitution issueStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Steve White <Stevan_White>
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 2006-01-26

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Fri 12 Sep 2008 08:22:07 AM UTC, comment #2:

In release 20080912

Steve White <Stevan_White>
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Mon 21 Apr 2008 07:03:57 AM UTC, comment #1:

It seems that in Dutch, IJ can often be a ligature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(typography)

The glyph for ij in FreeSerifItalic and FreeSerifBoldItalic is in fact a ligature.

However, it was wrong for this to have been in the default Latin ligature lookup tables. I have now made a special lookup for the Latin script in the Dutch language to contain this ligature.

Now I'm thinking, what about all those other funny combinations (Nj, DZ,...)?

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Sun 20 Apr 2008 11:00:55 AM UTC, original submission:

This is from Jacob Poon's report of 2007-10,
https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?106274

I think this refers to the ligature lookup tables.

I deleted some inappropriate combinations from those tables, and I think this is one of them.

I have read that some such combinations in some languages are really regarded as a single character. Perhaps some sort of language-specific lookup/replacement would be in order, but I don't know how it would work.

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Latin ligatures IJ (U+132-133) in all font variants do not have connected letters within each glyphs, so they are not real ligatures.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
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