On 8 Dec 2006 at 15:45, unix_fan wrote:
> I just observed a funny behavior from xpdf.
>
> While browsing the C spec. from
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/ I could use the find function
> to find "quali" but not to find "qualif", which is surely all over the
> place in the document.

Probably a ligature fi comes after "quali", rather than two separate
letters f and i.

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In article ,
Tweedale wrote:

>Probably a ligature fi comes after "quali", rather than two separate
>letters f and i.

Yes there is. Some other pdf readers (e.g. Apple's Preview) find it
correctly.

-- Richard
--
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:00:17 +0000, Richard Tobin wrote:

> In article ,
> Tweedale wrote:
>
>>Probably a ligature fi comes after "quali", rather than two separate
>>letters f and i.
>
> Yes there is. Some other pdf readers (e.g. Apple's Preview) find it
> correctly.
>
> -- Richard


Ah, of course! That sounds logical ... only, I've been using xpdf for
years and haven't ever run into that before. Weird. Maybe just luck. Or
maybe the ISO is the only outfit that bothers about fonts with ligatures.

Thank you guys.