On 11/04/2002 06:11:35 AM Thomas Lotze wrote:

>So far the theory is very clear, and as far as plain text is concerned,
>seems to be directly applicable. However, if I have a typeset document,
>say in PDF format...

If you've got a PDF document, it is encoded entirely in terms of glyphs. 
There is no problem here. A rendering engine can't choose not to ligate 
two characters that were supposed to be ligated when the document was 
typeset -- PDF doesn't work that way.



- Peter


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