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Originally Posted by nekokami
Those are character pairs that "kern" together in some fonts (are replaced by special combined characters). Has anyone tried pdftohtml yet? I got my email but haven't had time to download and test conversion.
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Actually that is not the meaning of Kern. It is the meaning of Ligatures. Kern is a term that means the removal of some of the space between letters to make them fit together and look nice on a page but it is not the combining of two letters into one. Kerning can also be applied (I believe) to a technique of adjusting the letter spacing to as a way to achieve full justification, or at least it has a roll in that effort.
Ligatures are, of course related to kerning in the sense of providing a certain 'look' to a page.
Dale