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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:20:46 +0100
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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ligatures in troff
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Hello,

On 9 February 2012 13:07, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when I try to use any ligature in troff (on p9p, but if I remember
> correctly also on p9) , such as \(fi, I don't get it. Instead I see:
>
> tr2post: <stdin>:6735 :WARNING: cannot find glyph, rune=0x66
> stoken=<fi> troff font R


As I have tried, the behaviour is the same on plan9 proper for me.
So nobody remembers what happened that we cannot use ligatures?

Thanks,
Ruda