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Ligatures not working on MAC OS X?
Posted by imageWIS in
30 May 2010 — 5:38am
30 May 2010 — 5:38am
I haven't had the opportunity to utilize ligatures recently, but I noticed that ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard from Leopard, I have been unable to get certain ligatures to display, such as the 'ct' ligature.
Does anyone know what the problem might be and if there is a workaround solution?
Thx!
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30 May 2010 — 8:18am
In what program? I'm not totally sure, but I don't think the interface displays ligatures ...
30 May 2010 — 5:42pm
MS Word.
31 May 2010 — 12:25am
Is this in any fonts? Or a specific font? System font? Snow leopard handles system fonts slightly different now. Also is it the same version of MS word that you were using pre-snow leopard?
31 May 2010 — 12:33am
AFAIK, MS Word still ignores the ligatures/OpenType features. Don’t know about newer versions, but MS Word 2008 ignores it insistently.
2 Jun 2010 — 10:10am
inkxel,
It is the same version of Word that I was using pre-snow leopard: Word for Mac 2008 version 12.1.0.
2 Jun 2010 — 5:57pm
imageWIS,
My understanding is that Word for Mac 2008 does support OpenType ligatures (assuming they have been turned on for your document), but only common ones like fi, fl, ffi and not st or ct.
10 Jun 2010 — 6:21am
Tom,
I can get the st ligature to work just fine, the ct ligature on the other hand just won't work...
10 Jun 2010 — 6:34am
Which font?
11 Jun 2010 — 7:59am
I tried:
Linux Libertine, Times New Roman, Centaur, to name a few.
11 Jun 2010 — 8:14am
Well, neither Times New Roman nor Centaur have any discretionary ligatures as far as I know. Linux Libertine does have both ct and st, but you won’t get to use it with MS Office.
This is the type fad in all it’s glory: more ligatures, for less money.