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Ligature after a space
Hi,
I want to create a ligature which only appears after a space (replacing the characters AND the space) so it's not contextual and easy to make.
But I also want it to appear at the beginning of the line or after a Tab (no space). How do I go about this?
Thanks
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29 Aug 2007 — 9:24pm
Uh... My brain hurts from just thinking about this...
29 Aug 2007 — 11:08pm
You could make it a contextual ligature. Have a class consisting of all the glyphs in the font, and have it appear when nothing in the class proceeds the two glyphs in question.
Note that this could then get triggered by anything else that breaks the context, such as a change of font. Even a change within the same family (bold or italic, for instance) would do it....
T
30 Aug 2007 — 12:08am
Sounds to me like what you want is not contextual at all, since the space is part of the ligature. Surely you just make a space_thing1_thing2 ligature?
30 Aug 2007 — 3:00am
Thanks. I'll try Thomas suggestion. It sounds like a lot of CPU activity just for a ligature though.
No it is contextual of some sort. This ligature is ment to replace a specific word not the same characters within another word. This word wouldn't be a word inside the text without a preceding space. But it still would be a word at the begining of the line.
b
30 Aug 2007 — 7:02am
Sorry. I didn't read the second half of your post properly.