At 4:50 PM +0100 10/5/01, William Overington wrote: > >>Of course ligation control is font-specific. That is why the ZWJ solution >However, I feel that the availability of ligatured characters in a font at a >specific official Unicode code point would be useful for the specific use of >a person to be able to encode the ligature information directly, so that he >or she may transcribe the typography of an eighteenth century printed book >directly "metal type sort to unicode character" and print out the text.
This is *precisely* the sort of problem Unicode is intended *not* to solve. Unicode doesn't do typography. -- John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/
