Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:39:31 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: James Howard <howardjp@well.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <20010418153931.R27000@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104180931290.8918-100000@y.glue.umd.edu>; from howardjp@well.com on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:31:56AM -0400 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010417125214.0456f470@localhost> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104180931290.8918-100000@y.glue.umd.edu>
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James Howard said on Apr 18, 2001 at 09:31:56: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > > > 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.) > > 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. I think it would be really neat if some future office suite used a properly ligatured "ffi" in its logo.... Some much older books also have ligatures for "ct", and at one time (2 centuries ago) I think there were even more. -Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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