Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:31:56 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard <howardjp@well.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104180931290.8918-100000@y.glue.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010417125214.0456f470@localhost>
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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". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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