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Inserting Ligatures in Word

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Remy Belleau Posted messages 31 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   -  
Remy Belleau Posted messages 31 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   -

Hello,

Could someone tell me how to insert the characters "st" "ct" "fi" "ff" etc. with ligatures in a Winword document?

Thank you for your help

Office 365
Windows / Chrome 119.0.0.0

Best regards,

Rémy

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brucine Posted messages 24434 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   4 109
 

Hello,

I don't have (and I don't think there is) a general solution.

A ligature can be of several types and it is either present or not in a font:
https://learn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/office/vba/api/word.font.ligatures

If we use a font that contains it, we can display it according to its type by checking the small arrow at the bottom right of the Fonts box, Advanced settings, Ligatures.

For example, "st" is a discretionary ligature where the others would be standard and I cannot check both at the same time.

It seems to me that "ct" and "st" are present in Garamond, the rest I don't know.
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Remy Belleau Posted messages 31 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention  
 

Thank you for this clarification.
I will look into Garamond...

Sincerely,

Rémy
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brucine Posted messages 24434 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   4 109
 

Experience has shown that they all work, including ct and st, in a standard Open Type font like Calibri, as long as the Ligatures: all and Use contextual variants options are checked (which does not prevent some fonts from containing specific ligatures that can be retrieved through the character map when necessary).

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Remy Belleau Posted messages 31 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention  
 

Good evening,

I tried in Word 365 to do "Fonts / Advanced settings / Ligatures: all" but without success. Do you have any explanatory hard copy?

Thank you
Best regards,
Rémy
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brucine Posted messages 24434 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   4 109
 

I have Word 2019, I don't know if the menu is the same in 365.

I go to Home, I click the little arrow at the bottom right of the Font box, and the Advanced Settings tab.

I choose in Ligatures: All and just in case I check at the bottom Use contextual alternatives and confirm with OK.

With the default font (which I enlarged on purpose), I now type for example ct.



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m@rina Posted messages 27235 Registration date   Status Modérateur Last intervention   11 543
 

Hello,

Indeed, ligatures are served by OpenType fonts that have advanced typographic features. Unfortunately, the available OpenType fonts are not so numerous; it must be noted that this is a complicated science performed by artists. Therefore, these OpenType fonts capable of typographic enhancement, such as the display of old-style figures, stylistic sets, proper lettering for small caps, ligatures, etc., are much more expensive.

We can mention Corbel, Calibri, Constantia... and especially Gabriola, which has been particularly worked on.

Below is an example of text with Gabriola, so the same word, same font, but with different stylistic choices, ligatures. Look closely, the a's, the i's, the E's, the ff's...

m@rina
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brucine Posted messages 24434 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   4 109
 

Hello,

Since you are here, the question arises not only of choosing an appropriate font and setting up ligatures, but also of applying them to an already written document.

Of course, I can manually select each of the relevant words, but if the document is long, it will be very tedious; I can't select all the text and do the same thing, as it would overwrite the differences in size and font attributes.

I understand that a possible solution involves VBA, but to me, VBA is just a "word," where the item would be wdLigaturesAll.
https://learn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/office/vba/api/word.font.ligatures

Your position on this?

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Remy Belleau Posted messages 31 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention  
 

Hello Brucine, hello M@rina,

The example proposed by Brucine suits me perfectly and ... "it works";)

The texts I have to process are numerous and span several dozen pages. The goal is to recreate facsimiles of ancient texts as they were in the 16th century.
As in this text: https://tinyurl.com/ykj7nr8p

​​thank you all,

Sincerely,

Rémy.
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