Re: [9fans] Ligatures

[George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>]

geoff, I loved my ll and ff and ffl too, and I loved the smell of that wet process
paper spitting out of the 100dpi printer we had, and I even loved the two
hypen cutmarks added to tell me where to cut the paper to get A4 back.

(hell, I even loved the mistaken TBL throw-back of 2mil or so which Lesk told
 me was to fix the over-correct of the mechanical typesetter doing table boxes)

but, the thing I really loved most of all was the W O R D S

I haven't met a printer yet who didn't want to get down into the paper tape
driving their bromide-cutter and freak a bit with the positioning before the
photons hit the phototypesetter. With the best will in the world, each of them
has their own idea of what it 'should' look like. lligatures are a ccompromise
for these people. They'd rather be carving them by hand.

-George