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I hope I was not wrong in assuming that such a question has never been posted, since I haven't checked.

Thinking about a girl, whose name is Gioia, and noticing that upper case G and and lower case a are similar in shape to 6, I tried to write her name as 6ioiX where X should be a vertically mirrored 6.

"Bando alle ciance", what I've drawn is this:

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How do you suggest me to proceed?

I don't think it's difficult at all to mirror the first two chars, but I don't know if any ligature of the 6 with the i char exists... Neither I know if there is a special char having a 6-like shape which supports this ligature.

Is making custom ligature something that can be defined in LaTeX somehow?

Love. It makes me wanna do anything possible, or even impossible, ahahahah!

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  • For love, you might also consider acrostics: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/121440/… Commented Jul 14, 2017 at 13:13
  • I still don't have a letter to write, ahahah! :D Commented Jul 14, 2017 at 13:15
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    I see... she's your girl, but she doesn't know it yet! Commented Jul 14, 2017 at 13:16
  • You got the point! This still happens! (I'm 28, ahahah) Commented Jul 14, 2017 at 13:17
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    I always remember my students about the “doccie pubbliche” board once showing in my city. Commented Jul 15, 2017 at 8:42

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Being a collection of clipped and scaled glyphs, it is very font dependent. Obviously, this is not creating a ligature, but merely piecing together an image.

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{stackengine,trimclip,graphicx} \newcommand\Gi{\clipbox{0pt -.1ex .65ex -.1ex}{6}\stackengine{0pt}{% \clipbox{.52ex -.1ex 0pt .4ex}{6}}{\scalebox{2}[1]{\clipbox{.52ex 1.1ex 0pt -.1ex}{6}}}% {O}{l}{F}{F}{S}\kern-.75ex \i} \newcommand\ia{\scalebox{-1}[1]{\Gi}} \begin{document} \Gi o\ia \end{document}

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A more complex clipping (different vertical scales of the pieces/parts), again in Computer Modern

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{stackengine,trimclip,graphicx} \newcommand\Gi{\clipbox{0pt -.1ex .65ex -.1ex}{6}\stackengine{0pt}{% \clipbox{.52ex -.1ex 0pt .45ex}{6}}{\scalebox{2}[1.22]{\clipbox{.55ex 1.14ex 0pt -.1ex}{6}}}% {O}{l}{F}{F}{S}\kern-.75ex \i\kern-.1ex} \newcommand\ia{\scalebox{-1}[1]{\Gi}} \begin{document} \Gi o\ia \end{document}

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and then using Baskervald (2 variants):

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{stackengine,trimclip,graphicx} \newcommand\Gi{\clipbox{0pt -.1ex .77ex -.1ex}{6}\stackengine{0pt}{% \clipbox{.50ex -.1ex 0pt .4ex}{6}}{\scalebox{1.7}[1.4]{\clipbox{.545ex 1.37ex 0pt -.1ex}{6}}}% {O}{l}{F}{F}{S}\kern-.66ex \i\kern-.1ex} \newcommand\ia{\scalebox{-1}[1]{\Gi}} \usepackage{baskervald} \begin{document} \Gi o\ia \renewcommand\Gi{\clipbox{0pt -.1ex .85ex -.1ex}{6}\stackengine{0pt}{% \clipbox{.42ex -.1ex 0pt .49ex}{6}}{\scalebox{1.83}[1.83]{\clipbox{.49ex 1.377ex 0pt -.1ex}{6}}}% {O}{l}{F}{F}{S}\kern-.68ex \i\kern-.1ex} \Gi o\ia \end{document}

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  • An undoubtedly nice solution. I'll check the code as soon as I can, so that I can appreciate it and possibly ask you to help me "trim" it a little bit :D Commented Jul 14, 2017 at 13:17
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Maybe this?

MWE

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{graphicx} \begin{document} \rotatebox[origin=b]{-25}{\large6}% \kern-.3em\i\kern-.05em o\kern-.05em% \reflectbox{\rotatebox[origin=b]{-25}{\large6}\kern-.3em\i} \end{document}
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  • I have to admit that the rotate box trick is excelent and effective. This way the two 6s have a perfect ligature with the is. The only thing I don't like is that the two sides or the round part of the 6s is inclined. Commented Jul 14, 2017 at 18:12
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Today I've had time to search on TeXSE for the most proper tools to produce that "ligature-like" arrangement of chars.

I've just run into this answer, which gave me the the idea to improve (imho, obviously!) @Fran's answer, which I found very very smart!

The final code is the following,

\documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \def\slant#1#2{% \tikz[baseline=(X.base), xslant=tan(#1)] \node[inner sep=0pt, xslant=tan(#1)](X){#2};% } \def\resize#1#2{% \tikz[baseline=(X.base), yscale=#1] \node[inner sep=0pt, yscale=#1](X){#2};% } \newcommand{\gi}{\resize{.94}{\slant{30}{6}}\hskip-3.8pt\slant{10}{i}} \newcommand{\ia}{\scalebox{-1}[1]{\gi}} \usepackage{baskervald} \begin{document} \gi\hskip-1.5pt o\hskip-1.5pt\ia \end{document}

which produces a quite good result:

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I would have preferred an upright text, like the last example by @Steven, which gives a good result too. But maybe obtaining a perfect result concerns creating a symbol from scratch, and that'd be not LaTeX.

I'll wait some day more for a visionary guy to answer! :D

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    I've waited for someone taking the TikZ sledgehammer :) Commented Jul 15, 2017 at 9:14
  • Sledgehammer! Ahahahahah, please, tag Till Tantau and Christian Feuersänger, since they will surely appreciate this comment! Man, you litterally "laid me on the ground"! Commented Jul 15, 2017 at 9:25

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