[Scribus] ligatures in Scribus

[Craig Bradney]

On Tuesday 24 May 2005 16:44, MaHan wrote:
> --- Janusz Prendota <afila at afila.pl> schrieb:
> > > Sure. We had a small discussion about it days ago.
> > > There are some hard-to-solve issues with automatic
> >
> > ligatures,
> >
> > > e.g. hyphenation, ligatures presence in fonts
> >
> > (imagine what
> >
> > > could happend when user change the font which
> >
> > doesn't contain
> >
> > > used ligature...)
> >
> > Nothing,
> >  It means of course changing the design, the spaces
> > the hyphenation...., but
> > when I change the font I'm prepared to see the
> > visual changes. Thats OK.
> > J.
>
> Hi,
> how does this substitution with ligatures work in
> InDesign, automatically while filling text frames with
> text, or by explicitely launching a special menu
> option?  IMHO, the latter seems to be more sane, and
> it could work similar to the way the Scribus
> hyphenator and Short Words plug-in work now. It would
> be irreversible, but the user would have the choice,
> and in case he wouldn't understand what he's doing, he
> could even have to confirm a "Yes/No/Cancel/Do you
> want to backup your file first" question before doing
> it.

Its part of character styles, and paragraph styles in ID, IIRC. Character 
styles is something that Riku is working on a design for now.

Craig
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