On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 4/26/2013 11:48 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> PS: if you really hate the ligatures, you can try to help improve this
>> "interesting" package to handle ligatures (it probably has the most
>> potential in engines other than XeTeX/LuaTeX because it's a bit more
>> complicated to turn off the ligatures there):
>>      http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/serbian-lig
>> The package defines commands for all the words from a dictionary which
>> contain letters "fi", for example
>>      \def\profit{prof\kern 0.03em it\xspace}
>>      \def\Gadafi{Gadaf\kern 0.03em i\xspace}
>
> whow .. it probably dates from the time before we had scripting languages
> that could parse text, although in that time tex's hash table/string space
> was too small to accomodate dictionaries

No, it's from 2011 and it is part of TeX Live. While many packages are
kicked out of TeX Live (including ConTeXt documentation) for all weird
reasons, not just sloppy licencing, there is no reasonable way to vote
against inclusion of weird packages.

> pdftex has \noligs -)

Try to explain that to the author ...

Mojca
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