Thread: Ligature love?
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Old 07-06-2020, 09:14 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
On e-ink Kindles ligatures are used in books that have Enhanced Typesetting. Here is an example from my Kindle Oasis with the Bookerly font.
I think I just figured out why I'm having such a hard time with this. I checked all three of the sans serif fonts on my Kindle in a book with enhanced formatting. *none* of them use ligatures, as far as I can tell--in the words "fine" "fields" and "file" there is a definite dot over the i. When I look at the same book using a serif font, the dot over the i disappears.

Since I only read using sans serif fonts, I wouldn't see any ligatures even if the book was formatted to use them. I wonder if this is also true on the Kobo? Of course, on the Kobo, I only read in Kepub format, so I wouldn't see them there, either.

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