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[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 08:10:36PM +0000, James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 16:38 -0500, Paul Knight wrote: > > Hi Rusty and all, > > > > An interesting item, which I don't think will affect publication, shows up > > in the HTML versions of the documents: > > > > It is probably related to kerning with the LaTex system: > > > > There are combined letters "?" (as opposed to the individual letters > > "fi")in the word "Speci?cation" on the front page and elsewhere, and > > various occurrences of double-f "?", which are actually represented by > > non-ascii characters. (This may or may not show up in this email for your > > amusement.) > > Ah, I'm afraid this is probably a Linux thing. We all use Linux and the > characters above actually render correctly as ligatures in all our font > systems. I suspect windows, not having the TeX/LaTeX heritage doesn't > know what to do with them, but none of us proofreading would actually > see the problem ... we probably need proofreader who actually uses > windows to avoid other issues like this in future. > > > Luckily, these do not occur in the URIs, as far as I have been able to > > see... that would be a problem. > > No, TeX won't use ligatures in URIs > > > For future publications, is there some control over "kerning" to prevent > > this? I think we can live with it, but it's an interesting element which > > could cause problems in some situations. > > Yes, we can turn it off entirely using the fontspec package. > > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/ > > I think the command is > > defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=NoCommon,NoRequired,NoRare} > > James {} would be needed around a list: defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures={NoCommon,NoRequired,NoRare}} We would also need to drop Mapping=tex-text and maybe add NoContextual just in case. NoRare is off by default so should not be needed. But we do have this problem with htlatex and I don't know how to fix it properly yet.