Re: [9fans] Ligatures in Plan 9 troff

2013-07-20 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello, On 18 July 2013 16:18, benjamin.purcell wrote: > when I attempt to convert the troff output with dpost. Does anyone know how to get ligatures using Plan 9 troff? I also have been unable to typeset ligatures. I think I once asked the same question here, with no answer. So, perhaps, if you

[9fans] Ligatures in Plan 9 troff

2013-07-18 Thread benjamin.purcell
I can't find any support for ligatures (suchas fi, ffi, fl) in the Plan 9 version of troff. The ligature tokens Fi and fi are not defined in the DESC file for troff fonts and no sizing data is given for those ligatures in the R font file for example. When I try to manually typeset a ligature (w