Re: Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"

["Keith J. Schultz" <keithjschultz@web.de>]

Am 26.04.2013 um 18:43 schrieb "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>:

> 
> Hi Keith,
> 
> if you look at the books of decent publishers, you will see that most of them still use ligatures (most American university presses, Oxford and Cambridge, German publishers such as Reclam etc.) However, many smaller publishers don't give a rat's ass about esthetics, and that's where Word comes into play: they have their authors deliver their manuscripts as Word files and simply typeset from that, more often than not by employing some underpaid and untrained "contractors" in India. Cuts costs and makes authors do all the work that publishers used to do in the olden days... Taking this as the norm is not a good idea.
> 
> As to LaTeX: you're wrong, LaTeX is part of the TeX family as is ConTeXt and has ligatures. If you set up your fonts correctly in XeLaTeX, you get them.
> 
Hi Thomas,

I never said that they do not have ligatures. I never said XeLaTeX does not have 
the ability to use them I have read the fontspec manual!

What I do not understand is why you rant to me about Words inabilities! I never mentioned
before you did!! 

It is a shame that when one states an opinion that others dislike or do not agree with one 
is pushed into a corner which had absolutely nothing to do with one post.

For me this discussion has gone far enough.

regards
	Keith



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