Ligatures (was Re: On Unicode)

[darrin]

I wrote:
> Also Unicode doesn't define character codes for ligatures, which
> would make support of them difficult.

Yes, I was thinking more in terms of Postscript using unicode when I
made that statement.

Of course unicode is just fine on the input side for a formatter. You
just can't use it for output, because the output is really glyph codes
rather than character codes. This is where ligature support would be
lacking.

I guess it makes no difference if you are using a PostScript encoding
for the output. My PostScript knowledge is limited but I assume it can
handle large glyph encoding somehow.

I think Ted is right about the can-of-worms... The OpenType specs make
an interesting read for these issues.

 - Darrin