🚀 go-pugleaf

If you want automatic ligature conversion you should be using TeX and
not Ventura Publisher. TeX is the best program I have seen for this
type of work and it does all the english ligature replacements automatically
if they have been included in the TeX TFM (TeX Font Metrics) file. Granted
TeX is a batch oriented text formatter, but it provides the cleanest 
and best text formatting I have seen. I don't think PageMaker will
do automatic ligature replacements either. Although, I just got some
info from Aldus on PageMaker 4.0 for the Mac (sorry about that) and
hopefully it will be available on the PC under Windows 3.0 soon.
I think it had automatic ligature correction (but I am not completely
sure) and it now has track/pair kerning, will create tables of contents,
indexes using chapter files and merging them at print time, and a host
of other features. Just hope it gets on the PC platform soon.