Embiggen the awesome of your text dissertations through ligature abuse

ligaturify.py

#/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys

if sys.version_info < (3,):
  raise Exception("This requires Python 3 to run. Sorry.")

ligatures = [
	("db", "ȸ"),
	("AE",	"Æ"),
	("ae",	"æ"),
	("OE",	"Œ"),
	("oe",	"œ"),	
	("ue",	"ᵫ"),
	("ffi",	"ffi"),
	("ffl",	"ffl"),
	("ff",	"ff"),
	("IJ",	"IJ"),
	("ij",	"ij"),
	("fi",	"fi"),
	("fl",	"fl"),
	("ft",	"ſt"),
	("OI",	"Ƣ"),
	("oi",	"ƣ"),
	("IJ",	"IJ"),
	("ij",	"ij"),
	("qp",	"ȹ"),
	("st",	"st"),
	("ſt",	"st"),
        ]

additional_ligatures = [
	("et",	"&"),
	("SS",	"ẞ"),
	("ss",	"ß"),
	]

digraphs = [
	("DZ",	"DZ"),
	("Dz",	"Dz"),
	("dz",	"dz"),
	("DŽ",	"DŽ"),
	("Dž",	"Dž"),
	("dž",	"dž"),
	("LJ",	"LJ"),
	("Lj",	"Lj"),
	("lj",	"lj"),
	("NJ",	"NJ"),
	("Nj",	"Nj"),
	("nj",	"nj"),
	]


def ligaturify(text):
  """Replace a number of character combinations with ligatures and digrams thereof.

  >>> ligaturify("Officially dissatisfied staff. Afflato floreale.")
  'Officially dissatisfied staff. Afflato floreale.'
  """
  for replacement_list in [ligatures, digraphs]:
    for letters, replacement in replacement_list:
      text = text.replace(letters, replacement)
  return text

if __name__ == "__main__":
  import doctest
  doctest.testmod()
  text = input("Ligaturify what? ")
  print(ligaturify(text))