--- Patrick Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:17:10PM +0100, Andrew > Dunbar wrote: > > > > If we are going to do auto-ligating, we really > should > > provide an option for it. Note also that it will > be > > font-dependent. It's always going to be possible > to > > use the 'fi' ligature codepoint but we might have > some > > fonts with the ligature and some without it. We > could > > support this with a fix to: > > http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2421 > > Why do we want a pref? Under what circumstances > would > someone want ligatures off?
People that don't like them, people that don't like all of them, or only like them in some fonts. People who find subtle bugs with them that wouldn't show up with ligating turned off. Perhaps they'll work on screen but mess up printing or something hard to think of in advance. I think any "smart" things should be able to be turned off - just like turning off smart quotes. Of course I like ligatures (: Andrew Dunbar. > pat > -- minimize prefs! ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
