Re: Suppressing ligatures while keeping kerning?

[Reimer Behrends]

Stephan Pabst wrote:

> Hi all,
>  
> I am currently looking for a way to disable ligatures
> in certain words while not suppressing kerning as well.

The quickest way, I think, would be to remove ligature information from 
the AFM file. That is, if the AFM file has a line such as:

C 102 ; WX 600 ; N f ; B 97 0 506 625 ; L f ff ; L i fi ; L l fl ;

(C is the character code; WX is the horizontal width; N is the 
postscript name of the character; B is the bounding box; L is ligature 
information)

then remove all the "L" parts so that it becomes:

C 102 ; WX 600 ; N f ; B 97 0 506 625 ;

Note that you need not (and should not!) modify the original AFM file, 
but simply create a copy and a new entry in the font database. This way 
you essentially have a font with and one without ligatures.

                        Reimer Behrends