> The Germans do not like ligatures across compound words, and that is
> much harder to do in an automated way (not in fonts themselves at
> least).
That's a good point, but it's a slightly different issue from
prohibiting some ligatures altogether: in German ligatures should be
disabled depending on context, and that applies to all ligatures that
may be present in the font; while in Turkish some specific ligatures
should never occur at all, but the others are free to go.
While we're on the subject, and since Thomas mentioned Reclam, I seem
to remember that dtv, another paperback publisher, uses a font with the
relatively rare ligature ft; I don't have any book by them handy at the
moment, but I assume that they do apply the same rule as with the other
ligatures and don't set them across compounds. That's what I meant by
font-dependent ligatures; maybe I should have written typeface rather
than font. Clearly you don't want to implement the prohibition of
ligatures across compounds at the font level.
Arthur (but I have the TeXbook on my way to BachoTeX. It does
use ligatures)
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