Re: Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
>
> to be honest I never noticed them when I was using LaTeX. It might have been
> the fonts.

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.

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
there is salt in food unless there's too little or too much of it
present.

Mojca

PS: if you really hate the ligatures, you can try to help improve this
"interesting" package to handle ligatures (it probably has the most
potential in engines other than XeTeX/LuaTeX because it's a bit more
complicated to turn off the ligatures there):
    http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/serbian-lig
The package defines commands for all the words from a dictionary which
contain letters "fi", for example
    \def\profit{prof\kern 0.03em it\xspace}
    \def\Gadafi{Gadaf\kern 0.03em i\xspace}
% \stopsarcasm
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