Letters joined (ligature)

Letters joined in ligature, technically those which share a single stroke (usually an upright) forming part of both characters, such as adjacent M and N, but more broadly any two joined or superimposed characters.

Traditional typographic representation <xref href="bibliography.xml#panciera">Panciera</xref>, p.17; <xref href="bibliography.xml#dohnicht">Dohnicht</xref>, p.3: ab͡ ab͡c͡
EpiDoc encoding hi rend="ligature"ab/hi hi rend="ligature"abc/hi
EpiDoc appearance with standard XSLT

Note: The standard stylesheets deliberately do not reproduce the corresponding typographic examples.

ab abc
Questions and issues Gabriel Bodard (15 Feb 2006): One issue is with ligautres than span words, names, or other marked-up elements. Perhaps two hi elements with a link/ of some kind? Rendering is also a problem, of course... Gabriel Bodard (15 Feb 2006): But the other problem is that most epigraphic editions describe ligatures rather than rendering them with the linking bar. So in InsAph while we do tag ligs, our stylesheets don't do anything with them at present (though we may index them).
Responsibility for this section authorGabriel Bodard
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