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I am trying to use an Open Type music font called Bravura Text . I want to use that font in an application that I am currently developing. I did a little research on the features of Bravura Text and the documentation of the font points out, that it is possible to write notes and adjust their vertical position on a staff . There are special characters to raise/lower a notehead on the staff to represent the different tones. I tried to use that features in text applications like Word 2013, Open Office Writer and Libre Office Writer. But I didn't manage to raise/lower the noteheads. All I can see

As google fonts are blocked in China I had to download them and use FontSquirrel for conversion. The problem: fi/ff/etc are ugly I did all of the steps here Prevent ligatures in Safari (Mavericks/iOS7) via CSS but no cigar. How can I disable ligatures at once? -webkit-font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; Doesn't work Despite no-common-ligatures you can try values like none , unset or no-contextual . See MDN for all possible values. Also it should be supported in all modern browsers. Essentially the same answer that andreas offered, but here's the full CSS for easy reference: * { font

Throughout the vast number of unicode characters, there are some that actually represent more than one character, like the U+FB00 ligature ff for two 'f' characters. Is there any way easy to convert characters like these into multiple single characters? Preferably something available in the standard Java API, but I can refer to an external library if need be. U+FB00 is a compatibility character. Normally Unicode doesn't support separate codepoints for ligatures (arguing that it's a layout decision if and when a ligature should be used and should not influence how the data is stored). A few of

I'm trying to get Devanagari ligatures (in Unicode strings) rendered correctly on Mac OS X 10.6. The strings are drawn on a JComponent and take RenderingHints for Antialiasing. The ligatures are displayed correctly in Windows XP SP2 and 7, and Ubuntu, but in Mac OS X, the ligatures are decomposed (or rather, not merged correctly), diacritics are moved away from their positions, etc. (cf. screenshots below, correct rendering example from Win XP SP2 on the left (with RenderingHints Antialiasing Key ON ), wrong rendering example from Mac OS X 10.6.7 on the right (Antialising DEFAULT = OFF ). I

Is there any possibility to prevent Safari/Mobile Safari on Mavericks/iOS7 from rendering ligatures in a Webfont? We're facing issues with not available ligatures in the font beeing displayed as white space. We already tried using this in the CSS: -webkit-font-feature-settings:"liga" 0; font-feature-settings:"liga" 0; text-rendering: optimizeSpeed; But it's not working, the ligatures are still blank spaces. We solved this by adding -webkit-font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; to the css styles. It prevents the ligatures from appearing and thus the broken symbols in the font. More