From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 17 11:55:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868AD37B43F for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 11:55:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA02178; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:55:33 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010417125214.0456f470@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:55:29 -0600 To: James Howard From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: banner(6) Cc: Kris Kirby , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010417000441.00dd9340@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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