Ligatures in Times New Roman with LuaLaTeX

Question

I would like to display ligatures in a text set with Times New Roman, using LuaLaTeX to compile. I have tried \setmainfont[Ligatures=Common]{Times New Roman} as well as Ligatures=TeX. Both seem to be ignored. The ligature glyphs are installed on my system.

In an older answer I saw that I can manually map the ligatures (Ligatures for fi, fl, ffl do not work for Times New Roman (XeLaTeX)). However, I was wondering if this has become simpler in 2020.

MWE:

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Times New Roman}
\begin{document}
office fit fluent
o{f}{f}ice {f}it {f}luent %to display text without ligatures
\end{document}

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 30 '20 at 15:08

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For some unknown reason times puts these ligatures under dlig. So use the Rare option. Braces don't suppress ligatures, use \/

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}[Ligatures=Rare]
\begin{document}
office fit fluent ---
o{f}{f}ice {f}it {f}luent %doesn't work to display text without ligatures
of/fice f/it f/luent %to display text without ligatures
\end{document}

answered Oct 30 '20 at 15:08

Ulrike Fischer

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That did it, thanks! How do I find out which option I need to use for which font? – C.Carl Oct 30 '20 at 15:11
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I used otfinfo --script=latn -f times.tff to check the features and then guessed. – Ulrike Fischer Oct 30 '20 at 15:18
I'll try that, although I might not be as lucky in guessing :) – C.Carl Oct 30 '20 at 15:24
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After 10 or 20 wrong guesses you will get the hang on it. It is mostly training. (The fontspec docu contains some explanations about the features). – Ulrike Fischer Oct 30 '20 at 15:38
I note also that the TeX Gyre Termes version of Times New Roman does these ligatures correctly without any [Ligatures=...] option. – Thruston Oct 30 '20 at 23:54
There's another \/ missing: of\/f\/ice :) – ljrk Oct 31 '20 at 12:20

Ligatures in Times New Roman with LuaLaTeX

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