Re: OT: YAGTT

Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
> Ph. D. wrote:
>> The ligatures have their own key on the keyboard,
>> so the operator has to remember to use them. If
>> they seem to be at random (as in your example),
>>...
>
> They are definitely not at random, but used following
> quite strictly the rules I mentioned (I looked at *a lot*
> of ligatures and separated pairs in that book, searching
> for the separated fi).
Sorry. I misunderstood your comments to mean that
you couldn't discern a pattern.

I looked at a book printed from metal type in 1962
by Linotype GmbH, the manufacturer of matrices
for Linotype machines. This was to show the various
typefaces they made, so they would have made sure
there were no mistakes. The text contains plenty of
f-ligatures but I noticed such words as "auffallender"
with unligated ff and "begreiflich" with unligated fl.

Very interesting. Thanks for bringing this to my
attention.

--Ph. D.