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- From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: AmiPro and ligature substitution
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 01:29:18 GMT
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- >>Can AmiPro be made to perform ligature substitution?
- >
- >To the best of my memory Wordperfect for DOS is the only mainstream word
- >processor with this feature. I sure don't think lack of ligatures is good
- >enough reason to drop Ami Pro, though!
-
- Before I moved "up" to Windows (acutally, Win-OS/2, but AmiPro doesn't
- know the difference), I used XyWrite in DOS and filtered my output
- through FancyFont, a typesetting utility that including a kerning and
- substitution filter. Despite the sarcastic quotation marks in my first
- sentence, I do appreciate AmiPro's superior layout, but I find it ironic
- to have to give up as important a typographic feature as ligatures, when
- these were available seven years ago under plain old DOS. No, I won't
- drop AmiPro, but I will fuss a bit.
-
- Thanks,
-
- David
-
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