Which factors decide the amount of spacing at which a ligature is divided

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Hello,at first I hope I'm using the wright english words to make the problem understandable, if not please ask.InDesign decides at a certain letter spacing to divide a ligature into his original Letters. This certain amount of spacing is different at every font. So which factors decide this certain amount of letterspacing at which the ligatures are divided? (There must be factors, otherwise it would be the same amount of letter spacing at every font) I'm creating fonts so its important for me to know the parameters InDesign uses to calculate this amount of letterspacing.Thank you very much in advance!Aaron

Steve Werner · Answer

Ligatures, as I understand it, are created by the designer of the font. You can discover which ligatures the font designer included by using the Glyphs panel. As such you can't edit the space between the glyphs they contain.

Here's a short discourse on how ligatures came to be:

https://practicaltypography.com/ligatures.html

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