Re: Are there any 'real' fonts available?

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From: Mark Brader
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1989 20:45

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I wrote:
> > Our version [of troff] can be configured at font-table
> > level to disable any specific ligatures that don't exist.

Jaap Akkerhuis chastised:
> There is nothing special about that. All versions of troff can do that.

And he's right, at least for sufficiently modern ("ditroff") versions.
The trouble is that I'm more familiar with esoterica like this in our
version than in others, and I somehow got to thinking that this *was*
one of our enhancements.  My apologies.

-- 
Mark Brader, Toronto		"But I do't have a '' key o my termial."
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com				   -- Lynn Gold

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!sq!msb
From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: Are there any 'real' fonts available?
Message-ID: <1989Sep1.204516.27661@sq.sq.com>
Summary: Mea culpa
Reply-To: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 20:45:16 GMT