Re: ligature formation across text chunks

Glenn Adams:
> The question here may be whether there should be some mechanism by which the
> author can indicate that no character to glyph mapping process be applied,
> i.e., other than the nominal CMAP process which is necessary. That is, how
> can the author declare that no substitution (including ligatures) should
> occur even in the absence of letter spacing.

According to css3-fonts, you would say ‘font-variant-ligatures:
no-common-ligatures no-additional-ligatures no-historical-ligatures’, I
guess.  (Seems a bit wordy.)

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/#font-variant-ligatures-prop

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Received on Friday, 20 May 2011 05:20:48 UTC