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Old 05-18-2010, 02:52 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
The document is using what are called ligatures, which make certain character pairs smaller. Common are ff, fi, fl, ffl, ffi. There are others, such as the one you noted, ll.

IIRC, Kovid said that the new PDF conversion engine handles ligatures correctly. I don't know its release status, though.
Yes, the new engine does (at least on the test pdf docs I have tried). But it's going to be a while before I can find the time to finish it.
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