Reply To: Turn on all Ligatures

So far as I know, InDesign doesn’t give you true ligatures. It just makes them appear as ligatures. True ligatures are a single character, the ligatures that InDesign makes are two characters. InDesign just makes them look like ligatures. And some combinations InDesign either doesn’t recognize or doesn’t do.

For true ligatures, you’d have to do search and replaces.

And I’m not sure if it’s still true or not so far as InDesign, but back in the Quark days, true ligatures (the keystroke) would not come through if the file was opened on a PC (we used Macs).

So far as the appearance of ligatures, I remember we had one client who was fine with how they appeared, but when using Minion Pro (I think), they did not want the “Th” ligature. So we had to do a search and replace and uncheck the ligature for that combination. We used a character style for that.