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Re: Misplaced code
- To: fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: Misplaced code
- From: Thierry Bouche <Thierry.Bouche@ujf-grenoble.fr>
- Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 18:52:30 +0100 (MET)
- In-Reply-To: <l03102800b28aff5f0b80@[130.239.20.144]>
» >> Another class of candidates for right boundary character is the ligatures.
» >> As fi, fl, ff, ffi, and ffl are only formed by ligatures (AFAIK), they do
» >> never occur as the next character at any ligkern step, hence it would be
» >
» >This depends, certainly not in the general case.
» >
» I which case isn't it? Certainly you can typeset them through a \char
» command, but doing that inside a word is at least as silly as putting a
» questiondown there.
i know at least one such example: you copy and paste from another
application (Acroread, e.g.) and use a TeX font with the system coding
for ligatures. That would be rather bad to have suddenly boundary
kerns/ligs appearing in that case!
»
Thierry Bouche, Grenoble.