On 09-06-2010 21:09, Khaled Hosny wrote:
I have been working on a text whose main font is DTL Unico:
http://www.dutchtypelibrary.nl/Unico_rdrct.html
I have just noticed that the "fi" and "fl" ligatures are not
created. To be more precise: if I compile this document:
\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\begin{document}
\Huge
\fontspec{DTLUnicoST}
fi fl
\end{document}
I don't get the ligatures that I should get. Am I doing something
wrong? Or could it be a flaw within the fonts that I am using?
Either the font lacks proper OpenType layout code, or you need to
explicitly select certain OpenType script/language, you can try setting
Language=Latin, Language=Default, Script=Latin or any combination of
them and if it works.
Thanks for the reply. Can you please tell me how should I set, say,
Language=Latin?
The same way you set Liagtures=Common.
Thanks. I tried every combination that I could think of and worked.
Oops! I meant to write "and it did not work" here.
If you have otfinfo command line tool (included in texlive)
I use MiKTeX, not texlive, and MiKTeX doesn't have that command line
tool. But that's not a problem; I have downloaded it.
, you can try:
otfinfo -s /path/to/font.otf
Where '/path/to/font.otf' is the full path to your font file, It should
list font supported scripts and languages, then try:
I get
latn Latin
otfinfo --script=SCRIPT -f /path/to/font.otf
All I get is
kern Kerning
It is short, isn't it? It seems that it does not support ligatures. I
did the same thing with another font (Akkurat Regular) and I got:
cpsp Capital Spacing
frac Fractions
kern Kerning
liga Standard Ligatures
ordn Ordinals
ss01 Stylistic Set 1
zero Slashed Zero
Where SCRIPT is one of the returned values of the first command. This
should show what script/language/feature combinations supported by the
font.
Thank you very much for your help.
Best regards,
José Carlos Santos
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