[XeTeX] Turning Arabic ligature OFF

François Charette firmicus at ankabut.net
Mon Nov 24 15:55:20 CET 2008


Heba Soliman a écrit :
> Dear All:
>
> I want to turn off the arabic ligature with XeTeX. Is there a way to 
> turn it off.
>
>   
Simply insert U+200D (ZERO WIDTH JOINER) between two characters to 
suppress the ligature. Good bidi editors should allow you to insert such 
control characters through a special menu.

Example: ث‍م

BTW, I thought you were specifically looking for fonts WITH ligatures! ;)

F



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