Re: Suppress ligatures for single words?

Hi Martin,

that would be a good solution. For at the moment the zero width joiner
is counted like an ordinary space character and the word ‘Auflage’ with
a zero width joiner between ‘f’ and ‘l’ is counted as two words.

Cheers

Raphael


On Mon, 10 May 2010 08:20:19 +1000
Martin Sevior <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> HI Raphel,
> 
> Sorry we don;t have an explicit way to suppress ligatures and probably
> won't. We could put in a work around to not count the joiner character
> in Word Count though.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Raphael Frey <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > is there any possibility to suppress ligatures for single words? There
> > are some cases, like the German word ‘Auflage’, where a ligature (‘fl’)
> > is undesirable (because of the prefix ‘Auf-’). Adding a zero width
> > joiner (U+200D) between the letters seems not to be a good solution
> > because Abiword does count the joiner as a normal character (option
> > ‘count words’).
> >
> > Thanks in advance for you help and best regards
> >
> > Raphael
> >

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