Thread: Ligature love?
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Old 07-06-2020, 08:33 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
It's true that æ and œ are now unusual in English. But these are only ever displayed if they are entered as the ligature character. It's not correct for software to display every 'ae' as æ.

But the much more common ff, fl, fi, ffi and ffl should be displayed whenever they occur in text for good looking typography.
I guess I don't understand what a ligature is? Is it just squishing letters together? I just did a search for the word "official" in the book I'm reading on my Kobo Aura HD, and it definitely looks to me as if the "ff" is squished together, although the dot over the "i" does not blend into the top of the "f" (which, not that I look at it, I don't really like, anyway). The book is in kepub format, and I'm reading it using the Gill Sans font. Am I misunderstanding the problem?

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