[grammatim[_2_]]

On Jun 4, 5:26*pm, "Robert M. Franz (RMF)"
wrote:
Hi grammatim

grammatim wrote:
Both of these situations are handled well in FrameMaker. When "Pair
Kerning" is turned on, it automatically substitutes the fi, fl, ff
ligatures for the separate characters but still reads them as the
separate letters for hyphenating and spellchecking (unfortunately it
doesn't do it for ffi and ffl, which are only available in nonstandard
fonts).

yep, proper DTP apps should do that. And in an ideal world, "know" when
(language dependent) the ligature applies and when not.

For true small caps, you need to have a separate font with characters
with the proper lineweights to match the regular text type, but FM
calls it when the SmallCaps option is chosen in Character Format.

Agreed. And that's why I was asking the OP how Windows handles these (I
really have no idea, but I'd be surprised there was any support for this
on the OS level itself).

Unfortunately I don't own any small caps fonts on my Windows machine,
but from what people have said about the difference between a Bold
font and a font that includes a Bold variation, I doubt that Word is
able to link a separate font to a character trait.