Re: Re: \type doen't type -- with latin-modern fonts.

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 19:44 13/09/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Daniel Flipo <Daniel.Flipo@univ-lille1.fr> writes:
>
>[...]
>
> > \starttyping ... \stoptyping works fine, but
> > \type{} typsets a "single dash" instead of two dashes.
> > The "single dash" is also different (lower and shorter)
> > than the two dashes.
>
>You should make a bug report and send it to Hans. IMO the \type
>should try hard to avoid ligatures (I have no clue how this could be
>done, but since Hans did this for \starttyping...\stoptyping, there
>is a chance that this might go into \type, too).
>
>One could argue that there should be no ligatures in a tt (or better:
>monospaced) font. But this is a point where the opinion of the
>experts is not clear. See the thread "bug or feature? aer font
>problems":

since this effect does not show op with cmtt, it looks like the lmtt fonts 
indeed have a ligature, which makes them somehow incompatible;

the reason why display verbatim goes ok, is that in that mode each 
character gets processed independently which prohibits lig building;

the best solution would be a \noligs primitives (also handy for xml)

an alternative is to have two tfm files, one for tt text with ligature 
building and one for verbatim, say:

cmtt10.tfm
cmtv10.tfm

(cmvtt is already taken)

let's see what Jacko says ...

Hans

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