Re: logos, symbols, and ligatures

-On [20071104 23:33], James Kass ([email protected]) wrote:
>>> Yes, Adam is right, of course.  It is the compound word boundaries
>>> which stop ligature formation in German, and not the syllable
>>> boundaries which I'd mentioned in an earlier post.
>> 
>> This is not correct.  In German, the syllable boundary stops
>> ligature formation.
>
>I'm not an expert on German typesetting.  Adam knows much more
>about this than I do.
>
>Quoting from this page, "Typesetting Old German",
>http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb12-1/tb31hara.pdf
>
>"The essential points are the following: 1) don't use ligatures
>in Latin Antiqua words, use them in French Antiqua and in
>French Fraktur: 2) in a composite word, do not use ligatures
>between adjacent letters of two components ..."

I wonder if they honestly meant components, for all I know this word has no
linguistic meaning.

German is like Dutch, for all I know, in the ways you hyphenate words
(typically on a syllable basis). And the way you hyphenate determines whether
or not you can use ligatures or not. So I have to agree with Werner here, the
syllable boundary stops the ligature formation.

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