Re: undo and combining characters

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 18:04:59 EDT

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    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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