On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Giles S Martin wrote:
> English probably doesn't have the same rules as German for compound
> words. Both "ruffled" and "cuffless" would use the "ffl" ligature,
> although hyphenation rules woul be different (partly because "ruffled"
> is a monosyllabic word) -- no hyphen in "ruffled", as compared with "cuff-
> less".
English seems to use similar rules, too. Or maybe they are not rules,
but just good typographic practice. See e.g. the "shelfful" example
in the TeX book, Chapter 5, page 19 (by Donald E. Knuth).
Regards, Martin.
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