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

Panciera, p.17; Dohnicht, p.3:
- ab͡
- ab͡c͡

Regular Expression Test

blah
blah

EpiDoc Encoding

<hi rend="ligature">ab</hi>
<hi rend="ligature">abc</hi>
ἀρχιερέω<hi rend="ligature" id="hi1">ν</hi> <hi rend="ligature" id="hi2">ἐ</hi>κγόνου <link targets="hi1 hi2" targOrder="U" />

EpiDoc appearance with standard XSLT

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

ab
abc
ἀρχιερέων ἐκγόνου

Questions and issues

Gabriel Bodard (15 Feb 2006): most epigraphic editions describe ligatures rather than rendering them with the linking bar. So in InsAph while we do tag ligatures, our stylesheets don't do anything with them at present (though we do index them).

Responsibility for this section

author: Gabriel Bodard

CVS Information

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