Re: Aw: Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-23 Thread Cuyahoga Falls
If you want to really get sucked in and obsessed, check our Robert Bringhurst's book, Elements of Typographic Style. Virgil On 10/23/2020 12:00 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 23 Oct 2020, Virgil Arrington wrote: For what it's worth, Palatino was designed in such a way that it doesn't need

Re: Aw: Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 23 Oct 2020, Virgil Arrington wrote: For what it's worth, Palatino was designed in such a way that it doesn't need "f" ligatures. Ligatures are used because the "f" clashes with the next letter. When Hermann Zapf designed Palatino, he designed the "f" in such a way that it doesn't clash

Re: Aw: Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-23 Thread Virgil Arrington
For what it's worth, Palatino was designed in such a way that it doesn't need "f" ligatures. Ligatures are used because the "f" clashes with the next letter. When Hermann Zapf designed Palatino, he designed the "f" in such a way that it doesn't clash into following letters; hence the "f" ligatu

Re: Aw: Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-23 Thread Shay Riggs
Hi Andreas et al, A possible workaround, should you be looking for one, is to choose “Use non-TeX fonts (via XeTeX/LuaTeX)” in document settings, and choose your particular Palatino font variant from the Roman menu. The default compiler appears to be XeTeX, but you can choose either “PDF (LuaTeX)

Re: Aw: Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-22 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Andreas, this is a (LaTeX) font issue. The previewer used has nothing to do with it. And not even unknown :-)-O http://google.com/search?q=latex+palatino+ligatures So you may have to select another font. As Kornel wrote, DejVu which I don't have installed. Interestingly Tex Gyre's

Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Andreas Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2020 um 12:56 Uhr Von: "Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" An: "Andreas Plihal" , lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Betreff: Re: Ligatures in the text Le 21/10/2020 à 17:54, Andreas Plihal a écrit : Dear community, I'm producing a KOMA-script-boo

Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-22 Thread Kornel Benko
> • ... > Cheers > Andreas >   > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2020 um 12:56 Uhr > Von: "Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" > An: "Andreas Plihal" , lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Betreff: Re: Ligatures in the text > Le 21/10/2020 à 17:54, Andreas Plihal a écrit : > > Dear

Aw: Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-22 Thread Andreas Plihal
" An: "Andreas Plihal" , lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Betreff: Re: Ligatures in the text Le 21/10/2020 à 17:54, Andreas Plihal a écrit : > Dear community, > I'm producing a KOMA-script-book with LyX (V 2.3.5.2, on Windows 10) and > want create ligatures. The LyX-documentatio

Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: If you are talking about the basic ff, fi, etc. ligatures, I am surprised that you do not get them automatically. If so, could you send a short example file that shows the issue? JMarc, The URL I posted mentions that automatic ligatures depend

Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 21/10/2020 à 17:54, Andreas Plihal a écrit : Dear community, I'm producing a KOMA-script-book with LyX (V 2.3.5.2, on Windows 10) and want create ligatures. The LyX-documentation says: Dear Andreas, If you are talking about the basic ff, fi, etc. ligatures, I am surprised that you do not

Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, Andreas Plihal wrote: I'm producing a KOMA-script-book with LyX (V 2.3.5.2, on Windows 10) and want create ligatures. The LyX-documentation says: ...   My document has it not! Andreas,   You need to add them yourself using LaTeX (i.e, the ERT box). There are several th