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From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Bug in cmr5.mf ?
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.234316.1@euler.claremont.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 91 07:43:16 GMT
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In article <3067@laura.UUCP>, schwab@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Schwab) writes:
> I have discovered that, unlike the other cmr fonts, the font cmr5 has
> no f-ligatures and that there are `<' and `>' signs in position 60 and
> 62. Looking at the sources, I found that cmr5.mf has the line
> `ligs:=1' instead of `ligs:=2' as in cmr6.mf, cmr7.mf, etc. Is this a
> bug or a feature?
 
> Btw, also cmsy5.mf and cmmi5.mf defines ligs to 1 instead to 2 as with
> the other sizes, although in this case it makes no difference.

It's a feature. cmr is based slavishly on Monotype Modern No. 8A
and in that original, the f-ligatures were omitted in the 5pt
font to enhance readability at the smaller sizes.

-dh

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