[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#382521: more ligature problems

Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org
Sat Aug 12 00:17:21 UTC 2006


Quoting Dick Streefland (dick.streefland at altium.nl):
> Package: ttf-freefont
> Version: 20060501cvs-8
> 
> The "st" ligature problem reported in bug #358526 was recently fixed.
> However, there are other ligatures that are displayed incorrectly in
> justified text in Firefox, such as "fi", "ff" and "ij". Both Serif and
> Sans Serif fonts are affected.
> 
> Shouldn't the change to the "st" ligature be applied to all other
> similar cases? I've rebuild the package with all instances of:

It was mentioned in
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=16253

However, the bug reporter there said "The ligatures ff, fi, fl, ffi,
and ffl are also mandatory - this is okay for FreeSerif and FreeSans
because it's standard modern typographical practice, but it should not
be done in FreeMono too, because it breaks the monospace-ness to have
ff and fi taking up only one cell (ffi and ffl don't seem to be in
FreeMono yet, or it would be even worse)."

For that reason, I didn't change all "liga" to "dlig" in the 010 patch.

Is it your advice that "fi", "ff" and "ij" ligatures should *not* be
mandatory? What is the common practice in Dutch typography for "ij",
for instance?


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