Hi, 2013/2/7 Stephan Bergmann <sberg...@redhat.com>
> And do we have decent support to let the user specify where not to use > ligatures in the input? Or do users need to insert explicit U+200C ZWNJ > with their input method of choice? > > (At least for German, where ligatures need to be broken quite frequently, > I generally don't understand the enthusiasm for ligature-enabled fonts > anyway, as in the hands of incompetent typists they lead to more harm than > good. What could probably help is to have automated rules that tell the > computer where to break ligatures, similar to hyphenation rules.) > You are right. I knew the special requirement of German typography, but I didn't check ZWNJ usage with ligature-enabled Linux Libertine G Graphite font before. (It seems, the ligature replacement is default for German in the original OpenType version, too). I have filled an issue about the problems and the possible fixes: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60427. I have made an initial patch in this direction: now spell checking accepts the words with ZWNJ and ZWJ characters, also with Unicode f-ligatures in the case of 8-bit encoded spelling dictionaries. (It seems, users of poor TTF fonts need this poor man's method: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59337, for UTF-8 encoded spelling dictionaries, you can set ICONV and IGNORE Hunspell options, if needed). I have already added some language specific exceptions for Dutch f-ligature replacement in Linux Libertine G, but Graphite is not enough to handle the requirements of German. Maybe a good method to handle this problem is a new Localized option of Autocorrect "add ZWNJ for German compounds", also an optional grammar checker feature "check ZWNJ in German compound". Also hyphenation and search/replacement may need modification. Regards, László > Stephan > > ______________________________**_________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.**org <LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/**mailman/listinfo/libreoffice<http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice> >
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