Cambria, Calibri and Consolas fonts comes with tabular spacing by default. This is especially useful when using tables as the numbers will be aligned equally in a column irrespective of its width. In this option each number is given the same space or width. Three fonts that use proportional spacing by default are Candara, Constantia and Corbel. For example 1 and 2 are proportionally spaced as 1 requires less space when compared to 2. Number Spacing Optionsĭefault: For this option based on the font selected the default number spacing specified for that particular font will be applied.Īs the name suggests numbers are spaced proportionally based on its width. Both these ligatures are not used commonly but only for certain sections of the text based on specific needs.Īll: In this option all ligature combinations that are available for a particular font will be applied to the text. Historical and Discretionary: Historical ligatures are usually used for that “period” effect and Discretionary ligatures are used for specific purposes. The combination of standard and contextual ligatures gives you the set of ligatures which can be used commonly. Standard and Contextual: Contextual ligatures as the name suggests are based on specific fonts and can be used with only those fonts. The standard set of ligatures contains the most commonly used ligatures like “f” and “t” but it varies based on language. To enable OpenType ligatures type some text in OpenType font like “Calibri” in a document.įrom Home | Font choose the ‘WordArt’ pull-down menu to Ligatures: For this reason we’ll be using Gabriola in all these examples. Gabriola font supports advanced OpenType features with extensive use of stylistic sets. Not all fonts are OpenType and not all OpenType fonts include Ligatures. OpenType was developed by Microsoft and Adobe. OpenType is a relatively new format for scalable computer fonts that’s replacing the stalwart of Window fonts, TrueType. Most common ligatures are ff, fl, fi, ffi and ffl.Ĭombining the “f” and “i” or “f” and “l” into a single letter makes the “f” look more stable rather than giving an impression of falling on “i” or “l”. Ligatures avoid the unattractive collision that occurs in some typefaces. About LigaturesĪ Ligature is a special character that combines two or three letters into a single character or glyph. Not all ligatures and styles need to be so extreme and they are best used sparingly and subtly. If you use XeTeX/LuaTeX, it will depend on the particular font and the feature set which you have activated in your document.Gabriola font normal (top) and with Ligatures – style set 7 (bottom) (Sometimes you have an etx file but usually not. However, even fonts which use the T1 encoding may have slight variations so to be absolutely certain, you would need to examine how each font you are using is configured. For example: grep -i '\\ligature' tex/fontinst/latinetx/t1.etx To get an idea for most T1 encoded fonts, you can examine the ligatures defined in the encoding file supplied as part of fontinst. However, it may still depend on the particular font as well. It depends on the fonts you are using, where this means the font encoding for TeX/pdfTeX or the font activated features for XeTeX/LuaTeX (with maybe additional TeX ligatures added for convenience if enabled).įor TeX/pdfTeX, it depends primarily on the encoding.
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