"ct" ligature in Baskerville font

Unicode systems like MacOS make ligatures by activating special Typography features of the font. You go to Format > Font > Show Fonts and click on the gear wheel and select Typography and check the box for Additional Ligatures. Not all apps can do it.

Zarquon42 wrote:

Interesting. So apparently this is a Pages issue. I tried this in Pages and Notes, and the character does not show up. In TextEdit, it does.

It does in fact work in Pages…

Zarquon42 wrote:

So apparently Pages is not one of the apps that supports this feature?

Which version of Pages are you using? I happen to be on 5.6.2 today, not the latest, and it works there.

(Notes is a very primitive app and I would not expect it to work there)

Zarquon42 wrote:

Well, I would expect a pasted character to show up properly in its font in any program.

But it's not a "character", just a glyph. It has no unicode number and you can't enter it separately, the font creates it when settings tell it to and it sees the "characters" c and t in the data. The glyph/character distinction a basic feature of text handling in modern computers -- among other things it allows data to be searched without worrying about typographical variations.

I'm glad to hear Pages worked for you -- there have been versions in the past where this was broken.

Zarquon42 wrote:

the original does not have the "st" ligature, but there's no way to have one and not the other, it would seem.

You should be able to apply typographical features (at least via format > font > show fonts > gear wheel) on a selective basis, by just selecting the characters you want to be ligatured.

Not sure what you mean but the document you are typing in has to be in Baskerville.

You might want to ask further in the pages forum

Pages for Mac

I couldn't say but you have it working now. Ligatures do not appear to work in "Notes" as Tom said.

You're welcome.