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{ligatures} occur where two or more graphemes are joined as a single glyph.

In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes are joined as a single glyph. Ligatures usually replace consecutive characters sharing common components and are part of a more general class of glyphs called "contextual forms", where the specific shape of a letter depends on context such as surrounding letters or proximity to the end of a line.

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Difference between {} and \/ for breaking ligatures

The Guide to LaTeX (4th ed.) states that \/ is used to break up ligatures (p. 30 and p. 469), which I thought was standardly done with {}. As \/ is normally known to insert an italic correction (see "How does italic correction work?"), and {} and \/…
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How do I disable ligatures?

I am writing my dissertation in LaTeX I am faced with this odd situation that if 'f' character has another character (f, i or l) next to it, it sticks the two together as can be noted below. This makes the two 'f' look different. How can I disable…
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Ligatures disabling

I want to disable ligatures when I am typing letters, however, I need '--' to be joined to a long dash. Is it possible to make this? Now I am avoiding it like this \usepackage{microtype} \DisableLigatures{encoding = *, family = * }
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N.B. ligature in Latex

Wikipedia mentions a ligature for NB (nota bene), however I can't seem to find any reference to this in the latex literature. Is there a way to use this ligature in my latex document? An example of the ligature:
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Replace ligature in bookmarks

I am trying to replace the s: ligature in the bookmarks by just an s. This is needed as my document is written using a fraktur font, but the colon appears inside the bookmarks as they are not in fraktur. My current code is the following…
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Accessing Junicode ligatures

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{junicode} %\setmainfont[Ligatures=Discretionary]{junicode} \begin{document} fifty nifty activity \end{document} This will produce fty ligatures, but not a ty lig. in the last word. …
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What are the steps needed to create a ligature?

If I want to make my own ligature, even if it's strange, for example for "rb" with a curl similar to those in "ct" or "st", or even mor strange such as a ligature for "or", using instead of the "o" the oval of the "g" in order to add a curl all the…
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How can I suppress a terminal ligature?

The standard techniques for suppressing ligatures, such as inserting an empty group, or placing the characters that would normally form a ligature individually in groups, do not seem to work for ligatures that are formed on account of being…
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Make a ligature by deleting part of a letter

I'd like to display a ligature of an A and an L where the A is followed by the bottom 'bar' of the L to form a ligature. Essentially, it would be like the following, without the vertical bar of the L. (If this is even…
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Bembo package 'fbb' with option 'altP' stops ligatures working

When the option altP is used for the fbb package the ligatures don't appear anymore. This code: \documentclass{report} \usepackage[altP]{fbb} \begin{document} P f ff fi ffi fj \end{document} produces which has the desired open 'P' but none of the…
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Is it possible to make my own ligatures?

I know that latex supports some ligatures like 'ffi', 'ffj' etc but there are many that latex doesn't have. Here is a list of ligatures that I want to do. Does anyone know how to do these? Please don't change font. Use Computer Modern. Thank you…
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Missing "tt" Ligature

I'm getting bitten by the unfortunate fact that most TeX fonts have an "ff" ligature, but no "tt" ligature. In my field of research, we often denote logical truth by \textbf{tt} and falsehood by \textbf{ff}. Due to the missing-ligature problem,…
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How to remove default ligature definitions in semantic package?

By default, when I load \includepackage{semantic}, it includes default ligatures such as -> for \to. How can I disable this default behavior? I only want to include ligatures that I have defined myself, so I can go back later if I want to and…
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How change emdash ligature?

In standard LaTeX (i.e., with, say, cmr fonts etc) a "---" is replaced by an emdash. I believe this is treated as a ligature. Is it possible to make a "---", in effect, generate the contents of the following…
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Fonts that combine special characters as ligature

In german, there are three special characters ä,ö and ü that are often written as two: ae,oe,ue. Is there a font, that shows an "ä" whenever the letters "ae" appear? I thought this would be solveable with a pseudo ligature, that combines both…
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