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Old 01-24-2011, 06:45 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Manichean View Post
Well, excuse me for saying so, but those are, as I said, ligatures. Look it up. I'm not that firm on typography, but I imagine your document is either badly laid out or it is not usual to contract every possible occurence into a ligature.
Also, only because Kovid said that Calibre would automatically convert those, doesn't mean it does that absolutely correct in every case- maybe you found a bug. Or, maybe, you ticked "keep ligatures" in the layout options.
Anyway, I'm going to shut up now before I annoy you further. Good luck in solving your issue.
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i did not tick keep ligatures -
i did look stuff up
- I do have a good conversion via the other program.
your advice was helpful, if brusque.
I now know what a ligature is.

suspect it's combination of poor quality source + maybe a residual bug in calibre. I'll file a bug. - ticket 8459

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