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  1. Big fan of Affinity software suite here! As a fly in the ointment, however, I have now discovered an irksome problem with its handling of certain Fraktur fonts. In addition to being well designed and historically accurate, Gerhard Helzel's opentype fraktur fonts (www.fraktur.biz) automatically provide the correct setting of ligatures as well as the long s, where the typographical rules require it in German. Helzel's fonts may thus pretty much be considered the aesthetic standard in this genre. The Affinity suite accurately sets the long s as well as other ligatures like [long-]st, fi, ff, fl, etc. It also generally correctly does not set ligatures where these do not belong (e.g., in words like "ausstellen" or "auffinden". Unfortunately, with some of Helzel's fonts, the ligature fl is incorrectly replaced with an "fi" — instead of setting "auflösen" (correct would in this case be no ligature), Affinity converts the fl into fi, i.e., it sets "auffiösen". It seems this problem is confined to the ligature fl alone, and curiously enough only with some of the Helzel fonts, with most of them Affinity correctly sets [f+l] in such words. As MS Word as well as another Windows app of mine always function properly with the affected fonts, I conclude it must be Affinity that contains a bug here. Manually intervening with zero-width spaces is possible, but is a highly cumbersome method to use in longer texts. The problem only affects about 20% of the Helzel fonts and even with these, Word gets it right and the false ligature apparently only appears in Affinity (see attached screenshots for how both applications set the word "auflösen" in a few sample Helzel fonts). Is there perhaps a quick fix to this problem (e.g., substituting "fl" for "fi" at the relevant place in the code, perhaps?) that could be included in the next upgrade?
  2. I frequently create documents set in the traditional German Fraktur alphabet, which requires certain ligatures that are not used in texts set with ordinary Roman letters. The most important one of these is the use of the so-called long s (Unicode U+0073), which may not be used interchangeably with the normal so-called round s but is used according to certain rules. The best Fraktur fonts out there are those that have been digitized by Gerhard Helzel (see http://www.fraktur.biz/). His OpenType fonts have been programmed to employ all required ligatures including the long vs. round s. These fonts work perfectly with Word for Windows 2010 and later and with InDesign as well as with XeLaTeX and certain other freeware programs. Most of them (not all) also work with QuarkXPress 2015. With the beta version of Affinity Publisher, the automatic setting of long vs. round s doesn't work, although conventional ligatures do seem to work. On my wish list would be that the above-mentioned OpenType ligature automatic would work also with Affinity Publisher.
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