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bug #44948: Require more ligatures with long S

Submitter:  Hsing-yen He <hammerandsickle>
Submitted:  Tue 28 Apr 2015 04:44:32 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  overall font problem Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Postponed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  Stevan_White
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Mon 29 Apr 2024 08:35:31 PM UTC, comment #3: 

uapra Juapea,

I looked at your links, but I don't see there how to see these ligatures. 

I am unaware of any Unicode character for any of these ligatures.

Of course, I could make a font lookup rule for that.  (I guess that is what you mean by "encoded in PUA".)

This is fun, but I doubt its usefulness.  Times/Helvetica/Courier were faces developed long after such ligatures fell out of use.  It would make sense in faces meant to resemble those of 250 years ago.

For the time being, I am marking this one Postponed.
Perhaps in some future release...

Thanks!

Hsing-yen He,

I am terribly sorry, I seem to have overlooked your bug report.
I don't know how that happened.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
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Mon 29 Apr 2024 11:30:20 AM UTC, comment #2: 
uapra Juapea <kdpawa>
Fri 01 Jun 2018 09:56:23 AM UTC, comment #1: 

On these pages I found Tempora LGC Unicode is already included these glyphs, encoded in PUA.
https://fonts2u.com/tempora-lgc-unicode.font
https://fontinfo.opensuse.org/families/TemporaLGCUni.html

Anonymous
Tue 28 Apr 2015 04:44:32 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hi Steve,

Have you ever thought about providing more ligatures with long S? Although ſt have implemented historical ligature “hlig”, but there are more ligatures with long S in the past as ſi, ſl, ſſ etc.

Regards

Hsing-yen He <hammerandsickle>

 

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file #34636:  My proposal.png added by hammerandsickle (4KiB - image/png - This proposal is derivated from five “Alphabetic Presentation Forms” characters and dotless i.)
file #33827:  Garamond_type_ſi-ligature.jpg added by hammerandsickle (293KiB - image/jpeg - You can also found these photos from here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Long_s)
file #33826:  Irenicus_LXXXVI.jpg added by hammerandsickle (764KiB - image/jpeg - You can also found these photos from here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Long_s)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2015-08-13 hammerandsickle Attached File- Added My proposal.png, #34636
    2015-04-28 Stevan_White StatusNone Postponed
        Assigned toNone Stevan_White
    2015-04-28 hammerandsickle Attached File- Added Newton_-_Principia_(1687),_title,_p._5,_color.jpg, #33825
        Attached File- Added Irenicus_LXXXVI.jpg, #33826
        Attached File- Added Garamond_type_ſi-ligature.jpg, #33827

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