Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:55:29 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: James Howard <howardjp@well.com> Cc: Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010417125214.0456f470@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104170912020.10708-100000@z.glue.umd.edu> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010417000441.00dd9340@localhost>
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At 07:17 AM 4/17/2001, James Howard wrote: >Compare this to the way "fi" appears in generic TeX output. The dot of >the i is the cap of the f. I think Knuth goes over this in the first page >of the TeX Book. That's called ligature. It's different from kerning in that it actually combines two characters into one. (My late father was a typesetting expert in the days before computer typesetting was common, and constantly had to proofread to catch situations in which ligatures were not substituted for the appropriate character pair.) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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