Adding and Removing Ligatures

Ligatures are special characters designed to improve the look of type. The most common are the “f” ligatures, and if you’re using a Macintosh computer, two of these ligatures, those for the character combinations “fi” and “fl,” are built into your basic fonts. WordSetter takes advantage of this by finding each instance of “fi” and “fl” in a document and replacing it with its corresponding ligature. To add these ligatures to your document (if you’re using a Macintosh):

1. Click the WordSetter menu item.

2. Click “Add Ligatures.”

(You can also click the Add Ligatures button on the WordSetter Document Formatting toolbar.)

The ligatures will be added to your document in body text, footnotes and endnotes, and headers and footers.

Ligatures may look better in some fonts than others. If you don’t like the way they look, you can remove them and return your text to its original state with this procedure:

1. Click the WordSetter menu item.

2. Click “Remove Ligatures.”

(You can also click the Remove Ligatures button on the WordSetter Document Formatting toolbar.)