From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 12:45:26 EST
At 05:51 AM 3/10/2003, Pim Blokland wrote:
>Of course. Similar problems exist in other languages: German has fä,
>fö, fü; Dutch has fà, fè, fì, fò etc. Time to update those ligature
>tables!
It is not normal, in text typography, to ligate the f to accent marks (I
have seen the f ligated to the left dot of diaeresis in some custom display
typography, but even then it looked more confusing than elegant). Collision
of any letter with an accent mark on a preceding or following letter is
simply a mistake, and should be corrected by letterspacing (positive
kerning). To ensure clarity and hence ease of reading, accent marks should
be clearly obvious and not too close to and certainly not touching any
parts of adjacent letters.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
It is necessary that by all means and cunning,
the cursed owners of books should be persuaded
to make them available to us, either by argument
or by force. - Michael Apostolis, 1467
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