Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!cheddar.cc.ubc.ca!halliday From: halliday@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Are there any 'real' fonts available? Keywords: kerns ligatures TeX Message-ID: <4836@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: 25 Aug 89 23:54:59 GMT References: <440@helios.prosys.se> <1006@adobe.UUCP> <1339@draken.nada.kth.se> <1012@adobe.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.ubc.ca Reply-To: halliday@cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) Followup-To: comp.text Organization: UBC Computing Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 18 In article holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander) writes: > >I'm curious. Even if the font supports ligatures, are there any >software packages that will recognize that a ligature should be used? >Or do you have to specifically type (using some option-shift modifier) >the ligature in place of the letter combination? Now you know why I use TeX for things that really matter, all round pain that it is in so many other respects. I also use it because it does kerns auto- matically, has very smart hyphenation and justifies a paragraph at a time rather than a line at a time. Personally, I'd like to see a WYSIWYG processor that did all of this. It wouldn't be hard - the hardest part of it is the paragraph justification. It's a little bit more involved than cramming words onto a line until you come to one that won't fit... ...laura