On Tue, 19 May 2009 12:22:38 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by H.S. to my mailbox:
> Just saw this over at slashdot: > "MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX" > http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/19/1556203 > > > I am not what is the status of ligatures and other advanced > typographic features in OOo, but at least till version 3.0, they were > not supported. I guess OOo better start working on it right away to > steal all the thunder and awe from this upcoming features in MSO. If > OOo beasts MSO in this, it would such a coup! > > Please correct me if I am wrong, I don't OOo supports ligatures and > glyphs at present without any kludges, does it? > There are very few ligatures supported by Unicode. The issue is that text readers cannot decipher ligatures outside Unicode, this makes them unsuitable for the web. To be honest, very few people have any interest in ligatures these days. They were an advantage to the manual typesetter in that he could reduce the number of lead slugs required and increase the number of words per line occasionally. As to the aesthetics of them, [shrug]. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
