Package: libfreetype6 Version: 2.1.10-3 Severity: minor Freetype seems to use all the ligatures it can find. This seems like a good idea, but wrong use of ligatures is worse than none at all.
There are some places where ligatures are not allowed, such as at the boundaries of words in compounds: ‘Auflage’ (sorry, German example, in English ‘Edition’) is a compound of ‘auf’ and ‘Lage’, and fl is wrong here. Similarly, freetype even uses the st-ligature in some fonts, such as freeserif. While this is not wrong in most cases, it looks rather funny for most readers. Discretionary ligatures should be left to special occasions. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686-smp Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages libfreetype6 depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime libfreetype6 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
