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Old 02-03-2014, 08:45 AM   #9
Jellby
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My advice, as in this miles-long thread (see post #16 and later), is to write the source file as skreutzer or myself wrote above (with whatever needs to be fixed, and maybe add some ligature-breakers if necessary). And leave the niceties (ligatures, long-s if using skreutzer's version) to the font... and if the renderer doesn't support these basic (I won't call them "advanced") font features, shame on it.

It shouldn't be impossible to find a decent blackletter font with s-alternates and ligatures, and it shouldn't be too hard to make it Unicode-compatible, especially if you only want to use it for a few short fragments like them.
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