Re: Font Question

Danny Wier wrote:
> From: "Gary Shannon" <fiziwig@...>
>
>>I was wondering if anyone knew of a font that has the
>>characters from 17th century English like the "s" that
>>looks like "f", and the odd ligatures they used back
>>then.
>
>
> Forgot to mention in my previous post on Unicode and 'ſ' (long 's'), the
> ligatures 'ſt' (U+FB05) and 'st' (U+FB06) can be found in Palatino Linotype
> [my favorite Latin-Greek-Cyrillic font - its Latin characters are
> essentially the same as Book Antiqua]. There are other ligatures in its
> OpenType tables, but they're not in Unicode and I have no idea how to use
> them. I can't put them in any documents with Word.
I think that when a font contan ligatures you can't type, they're
supposed to be automatically used whenever the character sequence they
stand for appears. For typesetting & display, but not encoding.