Re: OT: YAGTT

Hi!

Lars Mathiesen writes:
> 2008/7/28 Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
>
>> Mark J. Reed writes:
>> > Huh?  In a font with an fi ligature, every instance of f followed by i
>> > is ligatured, regardless of morpheme boundaries.
>>
>  Not by German typesetting rules, that's the point.
>>
>  Umm, if the point is that the kern of the f will break off the type
> if used before i, f, or t on a Linotype machine, wouldn't you have
> to use a ligature regardless of the sensibilities of the German
> spelling authorities?
Well, I have no idea.

> ... Or would German printers insert a thin space in such a situation
> to keep the f out of harm's way?
My wife just gave me a book that was printed with metal letters.  It
has fi, ff, fl and ft ligatures.  Except for the f+i case, I found all
in both the ligated and the separated form.  fi without a ligature
seems to be really rare in German.  But from the others it indeed
looks like a thin space.  See for yourself, I took some pictures:

    http://www.theiling.de/ligaturen/

**Henrik

Replies