Re: How to write Armenian ligatures?

I think the point of arguing whether Notepad is doing something or one 
of its underlying system services is moot. Similarly, one could be a 
pain and argue that TextEdit is doing doing anything but it is CoreText 
or ATSUI or whatever the relevant subsystem is that is doin the work. To 
engineers and power users, this would be a welcome supplemental 
information, but this does not eliminate the point that *functionally* 
it is Notepad or TextEdit, respectively, that exhibit a certain behavior.

So while I respect Andrew's comment for providing supplemental 
information I think John Hudson's characterization was still correct and 
accurate.

On a more general side, I think one needs to realize that the property 
of "plain text" as opposed to "rich text" (aka "styled text") is not 
that plain text has no typographic formatting. Plain text always has 
typographic formatting, like John Hudson pointed it out. The thing is 
that plain text has UNIFORM typographic formatting across the entire 
text, and it usually cannot be customized by the user (at least not to a 
great degree). But this says nothing of whether ligatures form or do not 
form by default.

A.

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Adam Twardoch
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