Re: How to write Armenian ligatures?

Andreas Prilop wrote,

> Microsoft's font Sylfaen from Windows XP/2003 contains glyphs
> for the Armenian ligatures U+FB13 to U+FB17.
> What's the proper way to write/access these ligatures?
> Should I write U+FB13 etc. directly?
> Should I write U+0574 zero-width-joiner U+0576
> and expect the font to substitute the ligatures?

Quoting Hrant H. Papazian's response to Curtis Clark from this archive:
https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0209&L=typo-l&P=11591

>> The only Armenian ligatures that I know of are the five
>> in the alphabetic presentation forms Unicode block.
>> Are they mandatory or stylistic?
>
>None are mandatory, and frankly some of those five are
>pointless - where they came from, I have no idea. Even
>in Armenian manusctipts you don't see a lot of ligation,
>although you do see forms modified to fit better, and
>abbreviations too.

Since the ligatures aren't mandatory, inserting ZWJ seems the
best option to request ligature formation without resorting to
direct use of the presentation forms.

I had made OpenType look-ups for these using the "dlig"
(discretionary ligature) feature.  I'll have to try the ZWJ.

Best regards,

James Kass