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Old 05-21-2013, 01:43 AM   #1
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Stylistic ligature display

Hi

I decided to try some headings in lower case with a fancy font. I am facing a ligature display problem with the most common of them in French, fi and fl. (see screenshot)

Up to now, this is what happens:
- Sigil displays the text, ADE does it too, but with a standard fi or fl (screenshot)
- Kobo just displays a blank space...
- Prince (PDF) is the stricter of them: it gives me a dire warning and crashes the file. Though it is obvious now, it took me a while to find the right culprit after reading this text:

Code:
*** Mercury runtime: caught segmentation violation ***
cause: address not mapped to object
address involved: 0x7a51000
This may have been caused by a stack overflow, due to unbounded recursion.
exiting from signal handler
My question is: which kind of character should I write in the xhtml file (Sigil) within the EPUB to get a fine ligature display or at least to obtain what I did from Sigil and ADE, and avoid a crash?
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