Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:50:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104172150100.31324-100000@spaz.huntsvilleal.com> 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.) Can anyone give me a link to a "everything you ever wanted to know about typesetting on-line"? ----- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. <kris@nospam.catonic.net> | ------------------------------------------------------- "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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