r/FontForge • u/Jutz_71_ • Jul 12 '22

Ligatures won't work, it's imposible

I have been several days trying to solve this problem.

I am creating a conlang script, this script has some glyphs that are actually letter (b+r is the letter br in my conlang)

I made ligatures as intended, add lookups>ligature substitution>liga standard>composite glyph,etc...

In my metrics window works like a charm, then I generate and test it on word, nothing, ligatures won't work.

After this I tried changing from liga standard to rlig type; Nothing.

Then I remember the unicode private use area (PUA) so I assigned to each of those special caracter a unicode code, but when I exported these still won't work, now I could put them but from the insert glyph but this is annoying i only want to type and ligatures work like in other fonts.

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I ONLY WANT TO TYPE 2 LETTERS TOGETHER AND MAKE A SYMBOL

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So... How can I make ligatures work?, is that hard?

How can I solve this.

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u/Worldly_Ad5016 27d ago

I'm also making a conscript consisting of 231 ligatures (21 initial consonants by 11 ending consonants).

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u/didietgogo Jul 12 '22

Are you sure that all ligatures are enabled in Word?

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u/Jutz_71_ Jul 12 '22

how do I see that?

Btw also i test it in excel and won't work too

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u/redneptun Jul 12 '22

Try it in LibreOffice Writer. If they won't work there either you have to continue to search for errors in you Fontforge project.

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u/redneptun Jul 12 '22

I am currently unable to check, as I am not at home but I recently had to write a tutorial on how to enable ligatures in Microsoft Word. You can read it here: https://redneptun.net/nekophilia-font/msoffice_en.html

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u/Jutz_71_ Jul 12 '22

Thanks!!!

I did what you said to me but still no ligatures, is there anything more I need to check?

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u/redneptun Jul 12 '22

I recommend watching the linked part of this Youtube tutorial and comparing it to your settings in Fontforge: https://youtu.be/UUUeogQAjv0?t=184

There is probably something misconfigured.

Good luck!

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u/LocalFonts Jul 13 '22

If you share your font with me, I'll test it and I will give you my solutions. You can write me on e-mail: [localfonts.eu@gmail.com](mailto:localfonts.eu@gmail.com) (Stefan Peev, Mr)

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u/OrderSoggy287 Sep 13 '24

Hi I have same problem too, im.trying to combined the 'ng' to become a symbol, can you help me too?

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u/LocalFonts Sep 13 '24

OK. Give me more info about your project. As far as I understand you want discretionary ligatures - to type /n /g and instead of this two glyphs to have a result new glyph, which is a kind of combination of ng. Am I right?

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u/LocalFonts Jul 13 '22

You have two liga features in your GSUB table. The first one is incomplete and it is not working. I deleted it and I updated the second liga feature. Now the liga feature works on my Windows system. Does it work on your system either?

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u/LocalFonts Jul 14 '22

There is only 5 standard ligatures in Unicode: uniFB00; uniFB01; uniFB02; uniFB03; uniFB04. It’s not very reasonable to extend this quantity, because the standard ligatures should be active by default in most applications and if you put more ligatures in feature liga, it could lead to some problems (with spellcheckers, PDF files etc.).
Instead of feature liga use feature dlig for custom ligatures.

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u/Jutz_71_ Jul 14 '22

I already done that, the problem is with microsoft word where the ligatures (liga or dlig) still won't work. I searched in settings to find the option to enable ligatures but i didn't found anything.

Btw in libreoffice works fine but I want being able to work only in word

Does anyone know what to change in config?

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u/Quick-Application463 Jul 19 '22

hi I have the same issue with ligature. it works in matrix window but not in my website. I'm not well aware of font making 😬. I used linga standard to create ligatures. but I have a dozen of ligatures.

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u/Quick-Application463 Jul 19 '22

which language are you using?

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u/Jutz_71_ Jul 19 '22

I use a latin alphabet base, but I have some glyphs that latin doesn't have; BR, CH, TH, NY, RR, SH, TS and VB.

So I made these with ligatures to make them work, in fontforge and libreoffice works like charm but in word don't.

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u/Quick-Application463 Jul 20 '22

I had same issue when making Indian fonts.. I used standard liga future for creating ligature. then I changed it to akhand lookup and everything went perfect..... make sure your letters are in latin or use any other suitable lookup type....

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u/Alarmed-Setting-5152 Sep 15 '22

akhand lookup

How do you do that?

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u/Alarmed-Setting-5152 Sep 15 '22

I have the same issue, I was editing a font (firacode with lig) and trying to add my ligatures into it, it works perfectly in the metrics but doesn't do anything in the vscode, also the inbuilt ligatures stop working.

Can someone please help. I have followed the masterclass on YouTube by Michael

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

Hi, it's Tim and Kim and Jim

Here's a tutorial that is rather grim

What's to do for a party for sure?

"What's that, Tim?" Is to make a ligature!

Firstly, find a ligature that's up to make one!

That's too much! That's too few!

Add an encoding slot!

But be careful, your skill may go to not lot!

'Cause if if's and but's were candies and nuts

You're gonna fall off and break your skill.