On Monday 04 July 2005 17:43, David Soukal wrote: > Hello, > > while reading the discussion of the automation of quotation mark > replacement, I realized that it would also be nice if Scribus could > (automatically or on demand) replace ligatures. > > This is a not a big deal since one can use "Find and replace" to do the > job. However, for larger amount of text this can be tedious. Also, not > all groups of "ff" and "fl" should be replaced. In the final product, :) > it would be nice to have some sort of dictionary for words in which > groups of letters are not ligatures... > > And there's the problem that not all fonts have ligatures so the > question is, what should happen when user switches from one font to > another; one that has ligatures to another that does not (or vice versa). > > This is just a suggestion if somebody decides to write a generic > context-dependent search-and-replace feature.
Yes, we will enhance the S&R, but we plan for ligature replacement with an evolution/replacement of the text layouter.
