ligatures

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Editorial note

There are ligatures (and in some languages, ligatures are necessary for the text to be readable, not just stylistic).

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Definitions4

Parts of speech1

Quick take

Any binding, uniting, or restraining principle or agency.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ligatures gathered in one view.

noun

Any binding, uniting, or restraining principle or agency.

noun

A thread or wire used to remove tumours, etc.

noun

The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ligatures.

noun

Any binding, uniting, or restraining principle or agency.

noun

A thread or wire used to remove tumours, etc.

noun

The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness.

noun

A spell or charm that induces sexual impotence.

Example sentences

There are ligatures (and in some languages, ligatures are necessary for the text to be readable, not just stylistic).

Firefox supports ligatures, but ultimately relies on the OS to do the font rendering, just like IE does.

Irritatingly for me, but also impressively, it seemed to detect ligatures correctly (it used the unicode 'ﬂ' instead of 'fl').

English/German with different hyphenation rules[0], different rules for ligatures[1] and different rules/preferences for spacing after punctuation[2].

Now, ligatures and digraphs are a slight problem, in that people think of ﬂ/ﬁ/etc.

One wonders if the then-common use of ligatures, abbreviation and short form substitution could account for the apparent discrepancy with the character counts?

Does anyone have a fix for the missing ligatures problem this PDF exhibits?

I've got ligatures in my Haskell with the default spacemacs set up, this font looks really nice.

No hyphenation, no ligatures, and overall the output looks ugly (compared to TeX).

Renderers like iBooks even support fancy things like automatic ligatures and so on.

Because it is based on ligatures, which are case sensitive by nature.

I was really thrown by the ligatures in some of the command snippets (diﬀ and lostﬁles).

Quote examples

[0]: I'm German, so I'm aware that it's a bit more complex than that, but although we have separate "letters" for Ä, Ö and Ü, they're really just AE, OE and UE ligatures, respectively.