Re: How to write Armenian ligatures?

On Nov 23, 2007 5:35 PM, James Kass <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmmm.  The normal behavior of Latin text is that ligatures won't be
> formed in plain text applications.  The same is probably true for
> Armenian.  That leaves only ZWJs, presentation forms, or discarding
> ligature information from plain text altogether.

And why wouldn't we want to discard ligature information from plain
text?  It's way down the list of things I'd want to preserve in a
text, far after italics, bold, page breaks, page size, font size, etc.
The only reason to preserve I can see is a digital facsimile, which is
not a plain text application. In a new text, carefully typeset, one
may want to go through and selectively add or subtract ligatures, but
that's hardly plain text either.