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From: jaap@mtxinu.COM (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: questions about creating virtual font files
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Date: 16 Oct 90 21:02:33 GMT
References: <22927.9010121655@manutius.ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1990Oct15.235715.17666@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
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In article <1990Oct15.235715.17666@nntp-server.caltech.edu> marcel@cs.caltech.edu writes:
 > In <22927.9010121655@manutius.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Sebastian Rahtz
 > (S.P.Q.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk) asks (among other, more complicated things):
 > 
 > > 3) can one of you character gurus tell me about the `ij' ligature? do
 > >    the letters actually join up?
 > 
 > Now, I don't pretend to be a character guru, and I'm not quite sure
 > if this is what you refer to:
 > 
 > In Dutch the combination `ij' is probably best considered a single letter.
 > (proof: Unlike other combinations of letters with a single sound, such
 > as `ch' and `oe', it is always capitalized as `IJ', never as `Ij'.)
 > For TeX purposes it should indeed be considered a ligature. ...

But not in all cases. For sorting dutch words you have the option
not to  threat it as a special character. Depending on the publisher
it is considered to be sorted under i or under y. According some
people there are actually three different possibilities for a Dutch
character set.

	jaap