Re: IJ joint in spaced lettering

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-On [20060109 03:50], Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt) wrote:
>At < http://www.somtrans.be/ >, the logo of this shipping company shoes
>the word "Rederij" set with over spaced letters, but "IJ" is, as usual,
>kept toghether.

Being Dutch I can tell you that the ij here is a special ligature that
evolved from a double i (ii) sound.
Current practice is that you can either use i+j or the ij ligature.

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