Ligatures are joined or decorative characters that are available in some fonts. Not all fonts contain ligatures, but many OpenType fonts contain ligatures, as well as some Apple fonts, such as Apple Chancery and Zapfino. When ligatures are on, all ligatures in the document are visible.
Apple Chancery with ligatures off
Apple Chancery with ligatures on
On the View menu, click Publishing Layout.
If you see a message that asks if you want to create a new document in Publishing Layout view, click Continue.
On the View menu, click Formatting Palette.
On the Formatting Palette, under Font, select or clear the Ligatures check box.
Notes
Ligatures in Apple fonts are supported under all versions of Mac OS X. Ligatures in OpenType fonts are only available under Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard).
For ligatures to display, the font that you use must contain ligature characters. Not all fonts contain ligatures. To view all the characters available in any font, you can use Apple's FontBook application, which is included with all Macintosh computers.
