Re: undo and combining characters

From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (huftis@bigfoot.com)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 03:03:41 EDT

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    Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com> wrote in
    news:20020424025849.68784.qmail@web9606.mail.yahoo.com:

    >> Well, if I write 'fish', and the 'fi' is displayed as an 'fi'
    >> ligature (which it really should, IMNSHO), I would like to be
    >> able to select the 'f' and the 'i' individually.
    >
    > That's a good point but does it make the same sense
    > for other languages which have been using ligatures
    > on computers the whole time. English can use them but
    > on computers traditionally don't.

    Well, most professional (and some entry-level) DTD programs
    automatically ligate 'fi' 'ffi' and 'fl' character sequences.
    But I don't know how these programs handle selection. Might be
    worth checking out (does anybody here has access to e.g. Adobe
    Indesign?). 

    -- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer

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