Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:45:57 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: James Howard <howardjp@well.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <15069.46773.901325.959773@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20010418153931.R27000@lpt.ens.fr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010417125214.0456f470@localhost> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104180931290.8918-100000@y.glue.umd.edu> <20010418153931.R27000@lpt.ens.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> types: > James Howard said on Apr 18, 2001 at 09:31:56: > > What other character pairs are there? I flipped through a couple books > > and only found "fi". > fl, ff, ffi, ffl. But Adobe fonts seem to include only fi and fl. > > I can live without the other ligatures, but "fi" without a ligature > looks really ugly to me in many fonts (like times roman) -- the clash > between the top of the "f" and the dot of the "i" is jarring. And "ffi" > with only the last "fi" ligatured looks ugly too. Get the expert collection for the font in question; they usually contain all those goodies. As well as nice things like non-lining figures and proper small caps sets. > I think it would be really neat if some future office suite > used a properly ligatured "ffi" in its logo.... So do I, but I'd put money on MS losing the desktop first. The desktop publishing revolution has pretty much killed good typographic practice. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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