>>>Can AmiPro be made to perform ligature substitution?
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>>To the best of my memory Wordperfect for DOS is the only mainstream word
>>processor with this feature. I sure don't think lack of ligatures is good
>>enough reason to drop Ami Pro, though!
>Before I moved "up" to Windows (acutally, Win-OS/2, but AmiPro doesn't
>know the difference), I used XyWrite in DOS and filtered my output
>through FancyFont, a typesetting utility that including a kerning and
>substitution filter. Despite the sarcastic quotation marks in my first
>sentence, I do appreciate AmiPro's superior layout, but I find it ironic
>to have to give up as important a typographic feature as ligatures, when
>these were available seven years ago under plain old DOS. No, I won't
>drop AmiPro, but I will fuss a bit.
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There is a TYPECHAR macro in AMiPro 3.0 that allows you to do EXACTLY what was originally requested, even to setting shortcut keys for the special characters.
