Re: OT: Georgian road signs (Re: OT: Dvorak)

Huh?  In a font with an fi ligature, every instance of f followed by i
is ligatured, regardless of morpheme boundaries. I don't see the
similarity.



On 7/28/08, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Philip Newton writes:
>> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:09, Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>
>> wrote:
>>> My understanding is that in German at least the distinction between
>>> long and short s isn't algorithmic, because an s before morpheme
>>> boundaries etc is short. So --- although a word-processor equipped with
>>> a dictionary could be able to do it for you, a font can't.
>>
>> That's my understanding, too.
>>
>> A minimal pair is Wachſtube (Wach-stube: guard room) vs Wachstube
>> (Wachs-tube: tube of wax).
>
> Still, if fonts to ligatures automatically, then they may also do long
> s automatically, because the problem is exactly the same: no fi
> ligature (and any other) in German between morphemes.  In unicode,
> you'd insert a zero-width non-breakable space, which you could also
> do in words with round s.
>
> **Henrik
>
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