From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 18:04:59 EDT
According to Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>:
> On Wednesday 24 April 2002 12:00, Patrick Lam wrote:
> > Why do we want a pref? Under what circumstances would
> > someone want ligatures off?
>
> When typing monospace. I've seen a computer book in which "fi" was written as
> a ligature, even in Courier, with the result that things that were supposed
> to align vertically didn't.
Perhaps could we be smarter that that, no ? Monospace fonts are easy
to detect :-)
Hub
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