On Friday 2006-08-11 19:17, Christian Perrier wrote: | It was mentioned in | http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=16253 | | However, the bug reporter there said "The ligatures ff, fi, fl, ffi, | and ffl are also mandatory - this is okay for FreeSerif and FreeSans | because it's standard modern typographical practice, but it should not | be done in FreeMono too, because it breaks the monospace-ness to have | ff and fi taking up only one cell (ffi and ffl don't seem to be in | FreeMono yet, or it would be even worse)." | | For that reason, I didn't change all "liga" to "dlig" in the 010 patch. | | Is it your advice that "fi", "ff" and "ij" ligatures should *not* be | mandatory? What is the common practice in Dutch typography for "ij", | for instance?
I'm no expert in typography, so I don't know. And quite frankly, I don't care too much, as long as the text is readable. Currently, these ligatures are not displayed correctly in justified text, and in some cases also in un-justified text. See for instance the last paragraph of: http://www.xs4all.nl/allediensten/voip/ With the FreeSans font in Firefox, the ligatures ij, ff, and fi overlap with other characters. My patch is probably only a workaround, and the real problem may be incorrect ligature definitions, or incorrect font handling code. However, I prefer readable text without ligatures over unreadable text with ligatures. -- Dick Streefland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
