Re: Suppressing ligatures while keeping kerning?

[Edgar Toernig]

Stephan Pabst wrote:
>
> For example, the letters "fl" within the German word
> "Auflage" (edition) should not be replaced by a ligature,
> because this is a compound word ("Auf" and "lage" are 
> independent German words).  However, writing {Auf}{lage}
> instead will also suppress kerning - this looks quite
> ugly especially when using an italic font.

Hmm... I though @KernShrink could help:

    def @x left a right b { b @KernShrink a & b }

    ... Auf @x lage ...

but somehow @KernShrink shows no effect.

Playing around, somehow @KernShrink acts strange.

I.e., using { 40p Slope } @Font:

   P. // P @x .

works right, kerning applied in both lines.
But here,

   f. // f @x .

no kerning at all in the second line.

What's going on?

Ciao, ET.