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Re: Are there any 'real' fonts available?

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From: Laura Halliday
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1989 23:54
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In article <HOLLAND.89Aug25144558@m2.csc.ti.com> holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander) writes:
>
>I'm curious.  Even if the font supports ligatures, are there any
>software packages that will recognize that a ligature should be used?
>Or do you have to specifically type (using some option-shift modifier)
>the ligature in place of the letter combination?

Now you know why I use TeX for things that really matter, all round pain that
it is in so many other respects. I also use it because it does kerns auto-
matically, has very smart hyphenation and justifies a paragraph at a time
rather than a line at a time. 

Personally, I'd like to see a WYSIWYG processor that did all of this. It
wouldn't be hard - the hardest part of it is the paragraph justification. 
It's a little bit more involved than cramming words onto a line until you
come to one that won't fit...

...laura
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From: halliday@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday)
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Subject: Re: Are there any 'real' fonts available?
Keywords: kerns ligatures TeX
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