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Old 06-04-2013, 10:47 AM   #10
yucca
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Limited set of ligature characters. Caveats on Greek letters.

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Originally Posted by roger64 View Post
Where could I find a list of these ligatures?
There’s just a handful of ligatures of Latin letters defined as characters. Not counting ij and oe “ligatures” (which are really separate letters, though of ligature origin), the list (extracted from the Unicode character database) is

U+FB00 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FF
U+FB01 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI
U+FB02 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FL
U+FB03 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FFI
U+FB04 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FFL
U+FB05 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE LONG S
U+FB06 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE ST

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Sometimes, in a book we find a small quote (only one... ) in, say, Greeks characters. I realize that these characters could also be summoned this way (screenshot). If they are missing in the font, provided we wrote something like:
body (font-family:"My_special_font"; serif), they would also probably be displayed with the serif replacement font.
Well, it should syntactically be body {font-family:"My_special_font", serif}. But there is no guarantee that the generic name serif maps to a font that contains the Greek characters you need, especially if the text is polytonic Greek. And you can enter the Greek characters as such (Sigil has no special tool for this, so you may need to use e.g. a Greek keyboard layout or use copy and paste), as named character references, or a numeric character references, as shown in the screenshot. But the problem is: will e-book readers be able to display them?

That’s really a different question, and an interesting one. You might need to use an embedded font to make sure that Greek characters will show OK.
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