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I do believe that the source eBooks should never use ligatures. Ligatures should be added by the rendering engine as one method among others to improve character tracking. EBooks should be sources and not attempt to force rendering, fix tracking, etc. You can read about typography in our wiki. Dale |
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Ligatures are in almost all professionally typeset material, and have been for centuries; most people just don't notice them. If my eyes were bad, I'd expect that I probably would just not notice them either, not that they would bother me somehow. Similarly, if my vision were bad, I doubt I'd notice the difference between straight and curly quotation marks, but I think I'd still subliminally get part of their intended positive effect of leading the eyes. But obviously my speculation is worthless as anything more than that. I wonder if studies have been done on their effect, and certainly, what holds good in general might not hold good for everyone... and I certainly don't dispute that they cause you trouble. |
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While everyone gets excited about new display tech (and yes, the 225dpi Mirasol display does look quite exciting, unlike all the others that I've heard of), there are a lot of improvements that will come simply by having more horsepower under the hood. I just hope that Adobe is working on a version of ADE with a full set of rendering improvements (smart typography, hyphenation to support smart justification with tracking adjustment, etc) that will make use of the increased power of the integrated single-chip solutions that are being developed. Quote:
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Until that time, feel free to enjoy all your document formatting you so love. Derek |
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"oe" and "ae" ligatures are present in pretty much every font, and are extremely common in British English, although both have been very largely replaced with a simple "e" in US English (with the interesting exception of the word "phoenix", although I note that there is a place called "Phenix City" in Alabama).
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The two usages of ligatures are so different there really needs to be a different name for them. Dale |
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Sorry, Dale, I'm not with you. What I mean is that, for example, British books will still almost always use the spelling "encylopædia", with a ligature, rather than use separate letters and spell the word "encyclopaedia". Is there a difference between ligatures such as "æ" and "œ" and the ones we've been discussing previously?
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Stylistic ligatures include such things as: fi, fj fl (fl), ff (ff), ffi (ffi), and ffl (ffl). Hope this is clearer. Dale |
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Thanks, Dale; I didn't know until now that there was a difference between the two "types" (no pun intended) of ligature.
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The combined forms æ and œ are diphthongs, not ligatures and should only be used when linguistically appropriate.
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