UE ligature

Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> In Micro$oft Word one can select the first letter and then
> navigate menu to Format > Font, select the Character Spacing
> tab and adjust the spacing value appropriately.  I'm afraid
> I don't know if/how it can be done in OpenOffice.  It is of
> course tortuous but possible to do it in TeX.
"Tortuous" not at all:

    u\kern -0.25em e

I was using this method when I actively delt with Føtisk. It looked
particularly good in ygoth (given that Føtisk is written in Gothic
fonts). In that context, I usually defined a command, so in practice I
typed {\ue}, but it did the same thing. (Føtisk also uses æ, œ and ao
ligatures; ä, ø, å, and y are considered short ligatures, but obviously
aren't drawn using this or a similar method. Typically, the æ, œ and y
ligatures have an overdot, but it's not contrastive.)

--
Tristan.

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