Re: Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"

["Schmitz Thomas A." <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

On Apr 27, 2013, at 12:16 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

>> Someone had to show me the first ligature years ago and when he did
>> that, I had to check every single book and document I had at hand to
>> check if ligatures were really commonly used. I simply couldn't
>> believe my eyes and the fact that it took me some 15 years of literacy
>> and a couple of years of using TeX without ever noticing any ligature
>> anywhere.
> 
> ha, and then you started recognizing tex docs by abundant use of frames around tables and, emdashes, funny logos with lowered and raised characters, and ...
> 
> btw, i have something similar with metapost: once you notice how precise mp is, you also notice how imprecise most other vector graphics are
> 
>> I consider this (the fact that one doesn't notice it) part of a good
>> design. It's similar with kerning: one doesn't notice it until/unless
>> it's bad. It's similar in the kitchen also. One doesn't notice that
> 
> but i assume, as you were involved in lucida ot, that you know that this font has no kerns ..
> 
> (i remember seeing a monotype type one times that was advertized as being very good because it had 4000+ kerning pairs .. on one of those expensive sun-workstation typesetting systems that in the meantime disappeared)
> 
> (already for years i wonder that when printing from firefox etc it looks like the kerns are put on the wrong side of the glyphs)

Here's a nice one: http://xkcd.com/1015/ I feel that's what TeX does to you...

Thomas
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