Ligatures

[G. Michael Paine]

Is there a secret way to get WordX, Mac. to use ligatures?

Even TextEdit can do it.

Michael

 

[Elliott Roper]

Is there a secret way to get WordX, Mac. to use ligatures?

Even TextEdit can do it.

Michael

opt-shift 5 Þ aka fi
opt-shift 6 þ aka fl if your newsreader is not up to it.

It works in everything, even Word X, provided the font you are using
has the ligatures in its repertoire.

More exotic ligatures will need Unicode and fancy fonts and Word 2004.

PS Use the keyboard viewer for more exotic characters.

The font book and the character palette is another fine way to waste an
hour or two.

 

[Andreas Prilop]

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
User-Agent: Thoth/1.7.2 (Carbon/OS X)

opt-shift 5 Þ aka fi
opt-shift 6 þ aka fl if your newsreader is not up to it.

I'm afraid your newsreader is not up to it.

þ = capital letter Thorn
Þ = small letter thorn

Here are some more characters from ISO-8859-1 aka ISO Latin-1:

¹ superscript 1 ¼ fraction 1/4 Ð D stroke ð d stroke
² superscript 2 ½ fraction 1/2 Þ Thorn þ thorn
³ superscript 3 ¾ fraction 3/4 Ý Y acute ý y acute
× multiply sign ¦ broken bar

There are *no* ligatures "fi" and "fl" in ISO-8859-1.
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/latin1/

 

[G. Michael Paine]

I'm afraid your newsreader is not up to it.

þ = capital letter Thorn
Þ = small letter thorn

Here are some more characters from ISO-8859-1 aka ISO Latin-1:

¹ superscript 1 ¼ fraction 1/4 Ð D stroke ð d stroke
² superscript 2 ½ fraction 1/2 Þ Thorn þ thorn
³ superscript 3 ¾ fraction 3/4 Ý Y acute ý y acute
× multiply sign ¦ broken bar

There are *no* ligatures "fi" and "fl" in ISO-8859-1.
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/latin1/

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I really didn't care about my newsreader being
ligature enabled, but rather, just to set Word to auto-ligature while
typing text in Word X.
I looks as though Word has failed again.

Michael

 

[Elliott Roper]

I'm afraid your newsreader is not up to it.

You are right. My news reader is lying. It appears to be using
Macintosh extended ASCII, MacRoman or whatever it is called this week.

I never bothered to look in the headers of messages I sent before now.
Fortunately Word uses the same character set round here as Thoth does..

þ = capital letter Thorn
Þ = small letter thorn

and those things *still* loook like ligatures. They might still work on
a Mac Word doc, but would have a very good chance of turning into a
thorn and an eszett when it hits a Wiindows machine.

Here are some more characters from ISO-8859-1 aka ISO Latin-1:

¹ superscript 1 ¼ fraction 1/4 Ð D stroke ð d stroke
² superscript 2 ½ fraction 1/2 Þ Thorn þ thorn
³ superscript 3 ¾ fraction 3/4 Ý Y acute ý y acute
× multiply sign ¦ broken bar

There are *no* ligatures "fi" and "fl" in ISO-8859-1.
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/latin1/

the GIF link and alphabet soup link on that site appears to be broken,
but it was easy enough to google for it elsewhere. What a sorry mess we
are in. I wonder how many more years it will take till Unicode is both
stable and fully accepted by all us masses of plebs.

Maybe I should cough up the money for Word 2004 after all.

Google also tells me that you are an authority on Cyrillic fonts for Mac
You are a masochist! ;-)