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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:18:32 -0500
From: "benjamin.purcell" <benjamin.purcell@zoho.com>
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Subject: [9fans] Ligatures in Plan 9 troff
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I can't find any support for ligatures (suchas fi, ffi, fl) in the Plan 9 version of troff. The ligature tokens Fi and fi are not defined in the DESC file for troff fonts and no sizing data is given for those ligatures in the R font file for example. When I try to manually typeset a ligature (with the code "\(fi" or "\(Fi" ) I get the error

"cannot find glyph, rune=0x46 stoken <Fi> troff font R"

when I attempt to convert the troff output with dpost. Does anyone know how to get ligatures using Plan 9 troff?

Thank you!
bsp