Re: OT: YAGTT
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 21:15 |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:16:02 -0400, Ph. D. wrote:
>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.
The orthography Duden (that is the quasi-normative institution of German
orthography) has an extensive chapter "Richtlinien für den Schriftsatz",
that is 'guidelines for typesetting', which includes a detailed remark on
ligatures. Ligatures are only to be used when the adjacent letters are
within the wordstem. The only exception is the fi-ligature that is also used
between stem and ending. It gives the following examples: No ligatures in
"ich schaufle ('I shovel', no fl-ligature, a remarkable case because the L
only kinda belongs to the ending), ich kaufte ('I bought' no ft-ligature,
stem "kauf"), höflich ('courteous', no fl-ligature, stem "hof"); but
fi-ligatures in streifig ('stripy'), affig ('apish').
What's intersting about these Duden guidelines for typesetting is that they
even include remarks on typesetting blackletter.
--
grüess
mach
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