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STANDARD Only the default set of ligatures provided by the font designer will be
displayed.

Ligatures off (left) and on (right)
DISCRETIONARY The discretionary ligatures are decorative - to be applied at the
discretion of the user.

HISTORICAL Historical ligatures are mainly ornamental suggesting a historical
context.

CONTEXTUAL The glyph applied depends not only on the actual characters replaced
but also on the context in which those characters appear. So the actual
ligature used for a given character combination may vary depending on
what characters precede and follow the combination that is replaced.

SELECT ALL All available ligatures for a particular font will be displayed.
CLEAR ALL No ligatures will be displayed.

You can choose which groups to turn on or off independently for any range of characters.
Select a character range in the TEXT TOOL and then click on the Ligatures button.

If you select some text and move your mouse pointer over the different options in the
LIGATURES and STYLISTIC SETS menus, your text will update dynamically to show you a
preview of what the option will do. This makes it easier to see the effects the different
options will have on your text if you choose to apply them.