Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:16:13 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: James Howard <howardjp@well.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104181213320.78582-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <20010418153931.R27000@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: :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. : :Some much older books also have ligatures for "ct", and at one time (2 :centuries ago) I think there were even more. Ae, Oe, ae, and oe are pretty common. There's an sz that I've never seen used outside of examples. -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the messagehome | help
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