[DayLateDon]

Hello ...

I've created a rich-text NSTextView that I load with plain text from a file (and then manipulate: setting foreground colors and such for different characters).

Two files contain the word "flask". Loading the first file into the NSTextView renders the character pair "fl" as a single-character ligature; loading the other renders the pair as "f" and "l" ... which is what I want.

How can I get the text view to stop with the ligatures and just load the text as-is?

I've tried programmatically selecting all of the text and then using the
"turnOffLigatures" method, but that doesn't work.

I suppose I could read the text file into a string and append each character to the text view one by one, but this terribly inefficient (especially for long files).


Pointers?


Thanks and regards,

DayLateDon

[Chuckit]

I think ligatures are a property of NSAttributedString. So you ought to be able to turn them off in the view's NSTextContainer (which is a subclass of NSMutableAttributedString).

[DayLateDon]

Hello ...


*DING!*


The attribute value

[NSNumber numberWithInt:0]

for the NSLigatureAttributeName key did it.

(I never even noticed the ligature attribute, even though I've been using just about all of the other attributes pretty liberally.)



Thanks!

DayLateDon