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Originally Posted by Jellby
That's what the font is supposed to do. If you look at my example, it has long-s in the middle of words and normal s at the end... yet the HTML has only "s", no long-s anywhere.
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How on earth does it do that, like, how does a font "know" if the character is at the beginning, middle or end of the word? Is that what that "hist=1, liga=1, dlig=1" stuff you mentioned earlier does (somehow)?
I'm utterly clueless how that works!
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Those shown in ADE are the ones defined by Unicode. If you could get the OpenType features to work in iBooks, I guess in ADE you'd see the same ligatures you see now, but not the other additional ones, and by not seeing I mean you'd see "ct" instead of the ct ligature, but not "Ã" or whatever. Surely that would be a more acceptable downgrade.
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Well, you have me thinking/wondering... in those screenshots that I just loaded up, for each line I said what the ligature was supposed to represent, followed by the roman/italic versions of the actual ligature.
However, if I put in "ct" (as two letters, not a lig), then if what you say was actually working, shouldn't all those double-character combos (in the first "column") have been automatically changed to the ligature??? They don't, though, they stay as the two characters.
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What I expect you can get is a single version, that works as you want in iBooks (and maybe others), and just okay in ADE.
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Well, it would appear that I can do both, if I use that "English" font! I'm stunned -- and pleasantly, elatedly so -- that it apparently works just fine in ADE, including
all the ligs!
