Which fonts support Ligatures on MacPro

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Which fonts support Ligatures on MacPro

Which fonts support Ligatures in a manuscript

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5), Font for Ligatures ?

Posted on Aug 23, 2014 12:11 PM

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Aug 23, 2014 12:19 PM in response to Mac Miffed

Is anyone out there to help me? I have been trying to contact Apple contact us and I am getting nothing. No phone number available for phone contact. I am 2 hours away from the nearest Apple Store and now 1.25 hours trying to get this information about Ligatures. My publisher won't take the book until the ligatures are set for the word Faeries. quote from publisher.

First things first. One book. Færies.

You have to learn to spell the word, The ligature (French for to cut, ligare), for a-e the code is 0230. Turn on the numeric lock. Hold down the open apple key (ALT) and on the number pad, type in 0230 -- then let go of the open apple key. You should get æ. For upper case Æ the code is 0198. So you now can type Færies and FÆRIES.

How do I turn on Numeric Lock

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Aug 23, 2014 12:18 PM in response to Mac Miffed

How do I turn on the numeric lock?

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Aug 23, 2014 3:13 PM in response to Mac Miffed

In System Preferences > Keyboard panel, enable Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in the menu bar. This will be just to the left of the time location in the Finder menubar. On the drop down menu, choose Show Keyboard Viewer.

With the U.S. keyboard viewer open as a guide, press just the option key. Do you see the æ ligature adjacent to the return key? In your document, you would press the option + ' key combination. Shift + option will provide other characters. Press option + u, then u again produces an umlaut u ( ü ).

Although Apple does provide a list of fonts installed with OS X Mavericks, there is no differentiation as to ligature support. Unless you remember from past exposure, you will have to launch Font Book, and use the character selection from the toolbar to scan font variations.

Otherwise, in Pages, you can select some text, open (command+T) the Fonts panel, and through trial and error, test each font by following the red arrow steps below. You can click the image to enlarge it. This process encourages good memory, or your own list of OS X fonts discovered to support ligatures.

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