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- From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
- Subject: Re: Ligatures in AmiPro and TYPECHAR
- Message-ID: <0568JX@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
- Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:32:12 GMT
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- djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
-
- >Has anyone discovered a way of providing for automatic ligating in
- >AmiPro? Or am I just out of luck?
-
- Automatic ligature substitution is not a typographically clean solution.
- In general, there are typesetting rules saying ligatures should not be
- used across boundaries of composite word parts.
- Suppose there was a ligature for <ss>, then it should be applicable to
- "mission", but not to "misspell".
- This problem is widely unknown in the English language community just
- because there are virtually no English words that have the prevailing
- ligatures ff, fl at such places.
-
- For the reason above, ligatures should be regarded as an additional layout
- property and not be handled automatically. On the other hand, due to
- problems when regarding characters as containing basic information and
- concerning search problems, users should not be required to manually
- insert ligatures as separate characters either.
- Therefore, as a consequence, text processing programs should handle
- them just like hyphenation. I don't know of any text processing system
- which can do this.
-
- Thomas
- wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de
-