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From: eykhout@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: National alphabets
Message-ID: <1070@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 22 Feb 90 16:46:47 GMT
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Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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About the 'i-j' in Dutch.

In a way this is a variant of the English 'y'. The Dutch term is
the 'long y'. Let's consider it as a broken-up, dotted, y.

TeX likes to hyphenate between the i and the j;
this is always wrong (maybe some artificially created exceptions exist;
you might try something containing the preposition 'anti'. Like
'antijichtpillen'. But that's on a par with the TeX problem of the
erroneous ligature in 'shelfful', or 'halflive') 
Don Hosek is right that it's more a kerning
problem than a ligature.

Small problem: the kapital form is 'IJ', as in IJselmeer. But that's
only a problem for people who write macros that capitalize a text
(not uppercasing!).

Victor.