Thread: I like to keep up with the current version but this time it was a mistake
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Old 03-25-2020, 11:25 AM   #10
j.p.s
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Originally Posted by j.p.s View Post
Killing copy and paste makes it a non-starter for me. I'm surprised no one is complaining about that.
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
The individual letters inside the ligatures themselves are there, it's only the way they're displayed. Copy/Paste and search shouldn't be messed up at all.
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Originally Posted by hobnail View Post
It's the same as if you were to type fi, fl, etc. with a font/setup that does ligatures; copy and paste gets what you typed.
My mistake then.

My only known recent experience with ligatures was a letter I wrote last year in libreoffice. When I printed it there was a blank space where a letter pair had been. I pulled the file up again and the correct letters were there. It took me a while to figure out they were shown as a ligature and that the printer font didn't have it. That put in my mind that a ligature is its own character.

It is still my opinion that ligatures are worse than useless.
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