[XeTeX] Absence of ligatures

[Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

Khaled Hosny wrote:

> But he indicated he already tried in subsequent messages, so I think he
> already knows by the time of reading may reply.

Fair comment.

> As there are several
> ways to set font features in fontspec (\defaultfontfeatures, as an
> option to any of the \set*font commands, as an option to \fontspec,
> \addfontfeatures) I didn't want to mention them all as it'll just
> add to the confusion, or mention only one way because it might give
> false message it is the only way.

OK, understood.

> My intent was to say "it is a regular
> options like other options you already tried", but may be I did it the
> wrong way.

Well, it came across as rather brusque to this reader, but
perhaps he is unusually sensitive to such things.

> And there is always a manual one can refer to

Very true :-)