Thread: Accessibility question: TTS and ligatures
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Old 05-03-2018, 10:32 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Versions of ADE/RMSDK 2.0.1 and later all support ligatures. So if you have fl in the text, you will be shown the fl ligature if the font supports it. So you don't need ligatures specifically in the text. Just let ADE/RMSDK do the ligatures.
Forgive me my ignorance here - I'm unfamiliar with languages that use ligatures and it's been a few years since I learned about the ß in High School!

Is it proper for a ligature to be used in ALL cases where two possible letters are together? For example, if I am using a font that has an fl ligature defined I would NOT want it to automagically create/use a ligature for a proper name like Florida, would I??

It seems like ligatures should be used when a specific language is tagged, rather than just when a font has a ligature available.

edit: by tagging the language, I would HOPE that would inform the TTS software how to render/pronounce the word or phrase.
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