On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Guenter Milde wrote:
Because there are no ligatures in Palatino -- by design.
There is not much change in the standard Postscript fonts. Especially, considering the emphasis that TeX puts on consistent rendering of unchanged documents, there will be no change without a new option to the palatino/mathpazo packages.
Guenter, Thank you. Back to reality: it really does not matter because 1) I suspect that no one reading any document I produce with LyX will be looking for true ligatures and 2) almost everyone else but us rebels here uses Wurd and the only ligatures there are those placed by Microsoft on users and their wallets. Rich
