How to properly name Ligatures

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Hi

I just wondered how ligatures should be named in Glyphs Mini to be working properly. I had a few ligatures defined like this: f_j

These ligatures do not work as normal ligatures, but rather as discretionary ligatures in Indesign. So how should I properly name my ligatures, is there a rule which ligatures show up as normal or as d-ligatures?

thanks!

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x_y.liga

All ligatures except some f ligatures go into dlig. This is described in detail in the appendix of the manual.

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What about ligatures with special characters? Is this possible? For example i would like to make a -> ligature that becomes something like this: ��’ (this should be → or “arrowright” or

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oh nevermind… the name should be “hyphen_greater.liga” and that works just fine.

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A doubt along the same lines—
For an arrow ligature, is it necessary to name a ‘→’ as hyphen_greater.liga? Or can I do something like shaft_arrowhead.liga, where shaft and arrowhead are custom components? Will this affect the font in anyway? I’d like use this is in an IDE, will this mess up the syntax in anyway?

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The parts of the ligature name are the names of the characters you type to get to the ligature. This is how Glyphs Mini builds the OpenType feature code.

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Understood. Thanks!