How to enable ligatures - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange
WEBJun 1, 2015 — 1. Try f\/low to explicitely prevent a ligature. – Johannes_B. Jun 1, 2015 at 12:22. Ok, I see the difference. So the problem then is just that in these fonts, the f-l ligature is extremely ugly? For me it looks just as if the kerning is smaller and the two characters are moved together to overlap.
List of LaTeX ligatures - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange
WEB6. It depends on the fonts you are using, where this means the font+encoding for TeX/pdfTeX or the font+activated features for XeTeX/LuaTeX (with maybe additional TeX ligatures added for convenience if enabled). For TeX/pdfTeX, it depends primarily on the encoding. However, it may still depend on the particular font as well.
Fontspec and Ligatures - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange
WEBNo: a modern opentype font has many ligatures and font shaping possibilities specified within the font. In addition if you also want classic TeX convenience ligatures such as -- to ndash you can use \setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{XYZ} If you choose a font that doesn't have ligatures, you're not going to get ligatures.
Use Fira Code font with ligatures in code listings - TeX
WEBFeb 17, 2016 — Firstly, you'll need to make sure that Fira Code is installed on your computer (which I'm sure you already do). The font features that Fira Code uses aren't actually listed as ligatures within the OTF, but seems to be fall under Contextuals. In order to use these font features, it is just a matter of enabling the appropriate contextuals:
Difference between {} and \/ for breaking ligatures - TeX
WEBThe Guide to LaTeX (4th ed.) states that \/ is used to break up ligatures (p. 30 and p. 469), which I thought was standardly done with {}. As \/ is normally known to insert an italic correction (see "How does italic correction work?"), and {} and \/ yield demonstrably different output, which of the two options is considered best practice? Are ...
Ligatures: why "fi", but not "fj" as well? - LaTeX Stack Exchange
WEBBut just to answer your question and give you a few ideas: the following fonts have 'fj' ligatures - I checked in fontforge. (The question how you would use these ligs in TeX is of course left as an exercise to the reader...): Adobe Garamond, Adobe ArnoPro, Linux Libertine, Storm Baskerville. Another possibility, of course: use a font where the ...
Historic font and missing ligatures - LaTeX Stack Exchange
WEBThe problem with this font -- as far as its ligatures are concerned -- is that the ligature names in the internal font table are, shall we say, utterly non-standard. For instance, instead of going with standard names such as f_f and f_f_i for the ligatures, a search with the FontForge app reveals that the font uses the names Omega and approxequal .
How to get old-style ligatures in plain TeX
WEBJan 8, 2016 — 17. The OpenType font feature hlig provides these, so called, historic ligatures. Instead of typing ſ, one could also use the +medi feature to have a normal s contextually replaced by ſ, so for instance the input streets would become ſtreets in the document. Unfortunately, I don't have a font that provides +medi.
Copying ligatures from XeLaTeX PDF - LaTeX Stack Exchange
WEB3. Try adding \XeTeXgenerateactualtext=1 at the start of your document. (IIRC, I think this requires XeTeX from TeX Live 2016 or later, or an equivalent from other distributions such as MikTeX; and the result of copy/paste will also depend on the PDF reader used, as not all PDF viewers support ActualText annotations.) Share. Improve this answer.
How do I disable ligatures? - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange
WEBJul 7, 2018 — 32. Ligatures are generally considered a good thing, but if you really want to disable them and are using pdfLaTeX (or LuaLaTeX †), the microtype package can do this for you. If you load this package and add \DisableLigatures{encoding = *, family = * } to your preamble, all ligatures will disappear from your output.