There is an additional area of consideration: Ligatures. These are the combinations of letters that had problems when printed as separate letters-the ink would tend to bridge between adjacent letters. This problem will also occur in black write laser printers and ink jet printers, though it is much reduced. The ligatures are combinations such as ff, fi, ffl, ffi, etc. In a quality book or with quality software, these combinations will automatically be changed to the corresponding ligatures �, �, etc.
on 3/25/02 10:54 AM, Joshua Yeidel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just a minor point: The ellipsis used by printers is typographically > distinct from three periods; the latter is just a typewriter convention for > representing a character that typewriters didn't carry. This is similar to > the relationship between the typographer's "curly quotes" and typewriter > "straight quotes"; the latter were invented for typewriting, and then > adopted into early computer systems. > > Historically, Macintoshes were among the first computers to include support > for these "typographically-correct" characters as a matter of course. -- Eric Hildum -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
