Patent ID: 6754875
Filing Date: 2004-06-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method for determining whether to use a ligature glyph to represent adjacent non-ligature characters, the method comprising:identifying adjacent non-ligature characters for which there is a corresponding ligature glyph, the adjacent non-ligature characters occurring at a particular position in a particular word; using the particular word as a key to retrieve from a table a list of one or more positions within the particular word at which no ligature glyph is allowed to appear; determining, based on the list and the particular position in the particular word, whether any ligature glyph is allowed to appear at the particular position in the particular word; and using the ligature glyph to represent the adjacent non-ligature characters only if any ligature glyph is allowed to appear at the particular position in the particular word.