Re: How to write Armenian ligatures?

On Nov 23, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:

> The common wisdom about Latin ligatures seems to be to avoid the  
> presentation forms, and to insert ZWJ between the two "normal"  
> letters (or do nothing and expect the software to ligate  
> automatically, which is much more problematic).  I would be  
> surprised if this were any different for Armenian.
>


Actually, the common wisdom about Latin ligatures is to avoid the  
presentation forms and to use whatever ligature controls your rich- 
text system provides.  ZWJ is "designed for marking the unusual cases  
where ligatures...are required.  [It is] not to be used in all cases  
where ligatures...are desired; instead, [it is] meant only for  
overriding the normal behavior of text."  (TUS p. 537)  And yes,  
Armenian is the same.

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John H. Jenkins
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