> I found the following in the LuaTeX manual:
>
> See chapter 5 for many small changes related to paragraph
> building, language handling and hyphenation. The most important
> change is that adding a brace group in the middle of a word (like
> in of{}fice) does not prevent ligature creation.
>
> "LuaTeX Reference Manual", February 2024, version 1.18. p.45
> http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/CTAN/systems/doc/luatex/luatex.pdf
Ah, thanks.
> I find the manual completely fails at explaining what to do instead,
> though (in any succint way that doesn't require the reader to become
> an expert in LuaTeX as well as in TeX).
Well... I can assure you that you are not the only one who is annoyed
by the terseness of the luatex manual.
Thanks for the quick fix!
Werner