Re: Are there any 'real' fonts available?

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From: Jaap Akkerhuis
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1989 15:45

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> Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.postscript: 28-Aug-89 Re: Are there any
> 'real' fo.. Mark Brader@sq.sq.com (953)

> Yes, troff can automatically generate ligatures for the letter sequences
> ff, ffi, ffl, fi, and fl.  There is a user-level command to disable
> three-letter ligatures or all ligatures if desired.

> Our version, sold as part of SoftQuad Publishing Software, can be
> configured
> at font-table level to disable any specific ligatures that don't exist.

There is nothing special about that. All versions of troff can do that.

> (This is the least of its features, but I'd better not make this too much
> of an advertisement.  If you're interested, 

Somehow it looks like a blatent advertisement to me anyway. I cannot
wait until Proficient, Elan and anybody else selling troff take this
opportunity to tell the net that they have this feature as well, support
PostScript and by the way, here is the number...

	jaap

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