[Scribus] Automatic ligatures?

[Craig Bradney]

> ----- Original Message -----
> Subject: [Scribus] Automatic ligatures?
> From: Eilert <eilert-sprachen at t-online.de>
> To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
> Date: 20-12-2006 8:38
> 
> 
> Moin alle zusammen,
> 
> Just detected that Scribus offers two ligatures for insert in one of the 
> documents here: fi and fl. I suppose the font of the text offers these 
> two, so Scribus has them, right?
> 
> But why aren't they used automatically? It's right hard to search the 
> whole text for each fi and fl and swap the characters by hand...

That would be a) because Scribus doesn't support auto replacement yet, and
b) not everyone would want do auto replace all of the time. This will change
in 1.3.5 or higher.

Regards
Craig