On 22 Feb 2011, at 22:55, Andy Lin wrote: > tex-text.map only provides for some punctuation marks. You can add > these lines to your tex-text.map file (or use it as a base and name it > something different, like tex-text-f.map). Semicolons are comment > characters. Below, only fi and fl ligatures are active. > > You'll need to run the file through teckitcompile.exe to generate the > .tec that XeTeX uses. > > ;U+0066 U+0066 <> U+FB00 ; ff -> ff ligature > U+0066 U+0069 <> U+FB01 ; fi -> fi ligature > U+0066 U+006C <> U+FB02 ; fl -> fl ligature > ;U+0066 U+0066 U+0069 <> U+FB03 ; ffi -> ffi ligature > ;U+0066 U+0066 U+006C <> U+FB04 ; ffl -> ffl ligature >
Although you _could_ do this, I wouldn't advise it. Much better to learn how to set up the ligatures you want as 'liga' substitutions in the OpenType font. JK > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 17:36, John Was <john....@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> Hello >> >> Forgive the puzzlement of a new recruit to FontForge (which is installed via >> Cygwin on a Windows XP machine). And apologies if this isn't the right >> forum - though frequent discussion of font-related issues here gives me >> hope. >> >> I edited a font which had just the fi and fl ligatures (in their true >> Unicode positions at FB01 and FB02) and I managed to create tolerable >> versions of the other three standard ligatures (ff, ffi, ffl). Using >> FontForge I have added these in the slots FB00, FB03, and FB04. But >> "mapping=tex-text" in the font call (in plain XeTeX) doesn't access any of >> them, neither the two that were there already nor the three that I created; >> however, the standard ` ' `` and '' for opening and closing quotations do >> work so the mapping call is basically functioning as normal. The glyphs are >> accessible to TeX if I give them manually as \char"FB00 etc. but I obviously >> would like to have them delivered automatically as usual. >> >> I have tinkered with various FontForge menus and had hoped that adding >> 'liga' to the GSUB window would be sufficient, but there is clearly >> something I am not doing right. Can anyone advise? >> >> Many thanks >> >> >> John >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >> >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
