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From: xdab@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Baird)
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Subject: Re: Ventura & Ligatures
Keywords: fi and fl ligatures
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.163857.25462@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 90 16:38:57 GMT
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In article <43498@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v105mahs@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>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
>	[stuff deleted]
>
>  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.

The person asking me about this is using a postscript font, and the
ligatures _are_ present in WordPerfect, but Ventura is not, seeming,
able to display or print these ligatures. 

So I guess the question boils down to "is Ventura on DOS machines 
capable of displaying and printing common typographic ligatures,
especially in light of its hype as a publishing environment?"




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