Ligatures aka Glyphs in word:mac v.X

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Friedrich Vosberg

Hiho.

How can I teach word:mac v.X on Panther to substitute fi, ff, fl by
the special glyphs aka ligatures? The AutoCorrection doesn't do it,
because the correction only works if after the fi a spaces was typed.
But if I type for instance »financial« the fi will not be substituted
by the glyph/special character GID 637 (alt+shift+5).

What can I do to get automatically fine typesetted outputs?

Thanks.
Friedrich
 
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Dayo Mitchell

Hi Friedrich,

One way to do this would be to run Find and Replace separate times for fi to
the glyph, fl to the glyph, etc, after you are done with the doc. It would
not be particularly difficult to combine those separate searches in to a
macro, or even create a macro that intercepts your print command so that
when you say Print, instead it runs the F&Rs and then sends to the printer
(although I can't do it off the top of my head--editing a recorded macro
should do it, though).

DM
 
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Klaus Linke

Hi Friedrich,

I think you only use ligatures if the letters are in the same syllable.
Since Word das no idea about syllables, you'd probably need to do the
replacements that Dayo suggested manually.

Don't know if it's worth the trouble...
It seems much more important to turn on kerning (which is off by default)
in the styles (Format > Font > Character spacing tab, Kerning above: 7
pt).

Regards,
Klaus
 
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John McGhie [MVP - Word]

Friedrich:

Well, you can't use AutoCorrect as you have noted. So you will have to
insert the ligatures using Find/Replace. You can record a macro to do that.

However, most ligatures are not in the Unicode range that Word X can handle,
so wait for the next version of Word before getting really serious with
this.

cheers


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from "Friedrich Vosberg said:
Hiho.

How can I teach word:mac v.X on Panther to substitute fi, ff, fl by
the special glyphs aka ligatures? The AutoCorrection doesn't do it,
because the correction only works if after the fi a spaces was typed.
But if I type for instance »financial« the fi will not be substituted
by the glyph/special character GID 637 (alt+shift+5).

What can I do to get automatically fine typesetted outputs?

Thanks.
Friedrich
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