This is a provisional list of complete ligatures to include in a "pro" level typography font... that is a font designed for printed matter. Most of these are unicode points, but the letters also include off-unicode ligatures based only on modern OTF and TTF fonts.
I'm posting it here in case anyone is aware of a better list like this, or is aware of what I'm calling "ligatures" but includes all items where a symbolic replacement represents a spoken word when reading the text, vs "symbols" like bullets and punctuation where the glyph is present, but not spoken aloud when reading. That is, when reading a copyright page "©" is read "copyright", but when reading a bulleted list, each bullet whatever it's shape, is simply a pause that is similar to the pause given to that shape.
I haven't yet addressed most "math" symbols, because I'm not competent to sort which math symbols are spoken vs pauses beyond the four basic operators and equals sign. My areas of typography don't include this.
Flush left are unicode points, while flush left are ligatures typically found in opentype font tables (based on 1923 American Type Founders Catalog.)
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