On Apr 8, 2011, at 1:31 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
Because there are no ligatures in Palatino -- by design.
This is one of the many, many reasons why the typographic world would
be a prettier place if Word folks would use Palatino, rather than
Times, as the default typeface. Not only then would documents all
around the world have a more beautiful face, but they'd be sprinkled
with elegance
fi ffi fl
rather than littered with collisions
fi ffi fl
Other faces designed by Herman Zapf would do as well -- such as Aldus
or Renaissance -- except that they aren't burned into the memory of
every postscript printer, like Palatino.
Bruce
