From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 17 14:51: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from Spaz.HuntsvilleAL.COM (spaz.huntsvilleal.com [63.147.8.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2FED37B42C for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@catonic.net) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by Spaz.HuntsvilleAL.COM (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3HLol931929; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:50:47 GMT Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:50:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Kris Kirby X-Sender: kris@spaz.huntsvilleal.com To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010417125214.0456f470@localhost> Message-ID: X-Tech-Support-Email: bofh@catonic.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. | ------------------------------------------------------- "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