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From: flynn@anyguay.acm.rpi.edu (Kevin Lincoln Flynn)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: ligatures in troff
Keywords: troff, ligatures, fl, fi, ffi
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Date: 6 Jul 89 19:10:34 GMT
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Reply-To: flynn@anyguay.acm.rpi.edu (Kevin Lincoln Flynn)
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I'm using troff on a 3B2/400 with a bitmap display to format the overview
of a software project I'm working on...  when I give the command

  troff -mm overview > ov.troff

it works fine, no errors, no problems.  Then I 

  proof ov.troff

(proof is the phototypesetter simulator for the AT&T 5620 bitmap display.)
Again, it works fine, except that every time the character combinations
'fl,' 'fi,' or 'ffi' appear in the text proof attempts to load that particular
ligature off disk...  and it doesn't exist!  I didn't see any way in the
manual to tell troff NOT to use the ligatures...  is there a way?  

Thanks in advance...
  
  - Flynn


  
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