On 8/11/2015 8:25 AM, Jan U. Hasecke wrote:
Hi,
I want to follow up on my own message below.
I got the hint offlist that it should not be too difficult to convert a
LaTeX package into a ConTeXt module.
I don't know but it would probably be a bit alien approach in the
context code base
So I guess that there is no built-in functionality of semantical
switching between ligatures and normal characters.
The official way to do this is:
\starttext
shel\noligature{ff}ul
\stoptext
which also preserves hyphenation and kerning as well as other tricky
features that a font provides.
The best place to incorporate such a feature is in the hyphenator but I
have no time now to do that. So, instead I added a few lines to an
existing (probably unknown) mechanism:
\replaceword[more][shelfful] [shel{ff}ul]
\replaceword[more][shifffahrt][shi{ff}fahrt]
\starttext
shel\noligature{ff}ul
\setreplacements[more]
shelfful
\stoptext
The downside of the 10 line extension is that it's not the most
efficient implementation but probably still fast enough.
I am not a typographer – maybe I am wrong – but I don't like ligatures
in the wrong places. Inserting ligature stoppers by hand is a tedious work.
I don't like ligatures in most places (why only the few famous ones ...
a bit imposed tradition limited to old constraints)
The latex package selnoligs was beneficial to me when I made a book with
more than 1000 pages, where I would never managed to stop ligatures by
hand.
So what is your opinion about such a feature?
You can probably make a list of special words and adding that to a
module is no big deal. I have no time to look into what is around and do
that myself.
I uploaded a beta.
Hans
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