[XeTeX] Accessing ligatures from FontForge

[David J. Perry]

John,

When you created the f_f_l and so forth in FontForge, did mark them as 
ligatures and indicate the correct number of components?  (Characters in OT 
are classified as simple, ligatures, marks, components and something else I 
forget at the moment; ligatures also receive a value of 2, 3, etc. depending 
on the number of pieces that make them up.)  FontForge should provide a way 
to categorize the characters correctly; if you don't, it probably assumes 
'simple' and things won't work right.

David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Was" <john.was at ntlworld.com>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Accessing ligatures from FontForge


> Dear David
>
> Many thanks.  That looks exactly how I would expect it to be - though I am 
> obviously not quite umderstanding what fontforge want me to do to get liga 
> to work.  I will keep at it and no doubt the penny will drop eventually.
>
> Best wishes
>
>
> John