Re: Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"

["Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" <ishamid@colostate.edu>]

Greetings, Keith, Thomas, and all,

On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:43:59 -0600, Thomas A. Schmitz  
<thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> 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.

The situation Thomas is describing is analogous to what happened 40 years  
ago: When metal-based typesetting started to die out, what came after was  
atrocious but ubiquitous. And that's _exactly_ why Knuth invented TeX!

As a general rule: High-quality typesetting with good fonts and the  
ligatures off is like pouring fine wine into a plastic cup.

Best wishes
Idris
-- 
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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