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From: v105mahs@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peter P Donohue)
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Subject: Re: Ventura & Ligatures
Keywords: fi and fl ligatures
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Date: 31 Oct 90 04:16:26 GMT
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In article <1990Oct30.215816.943@midway.uchicago.edu>, xdab@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Baird) writes...
> 
>Is there a way to utilize the fi and fl ligatures in 
>Ventura? The files are created in WordPerfect where
>the extended ASCII characters are present, visible
>on the screen, and print. However, when the WP files
>are imported into Ventura, the ligatures are replaced
>by boxes, and they do not print. The person who has
>asked this question has talked to Ventura with no
>satisfactory answer ("what is a ligature?" was one of
>the responses from customer service). This is all being
>done in a DOS environment.
> 

  I had to look up in my dictionary what a ligature is before I could try 
this.  Ventura supports some, such as the A-E (character 145 and 146) and 
O-C (character 180 and 181), but does not support others in its normal 
character sets.  One possible solution would be to check the various 
Postscript fonts that are available or (if you don't have a Postscript 
printer) to see if a company such as Bitstream carries a font collection 
that will do.
  Another possibility would be to create the characters graphically.  This
is much more time consuming and would be a pain to size.
  Good luck.

					Pete 

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