Re: [virtio] Re: Touch-ups needed for the virtio csd01 and csprd01 file

Subject: Re: [virtio] Re: Touch-ups needed for the virtio csd01 and csprd01 file "front matter"

Hi Michael and all,

I believe that the PDF is fine, but the HTML contains the non-ascii representations of ligatures, instead of the characters "fi" and "ff".

Although most users would not notice it, I remember having it cause some issues in my processing stream, in particular a step in which I copy the phrase "Committee Specification Draft 01" from the HTML document to an environment variable for generating things like the manifest file, etc.

If it can be avoided by setting something in the production environment, that would be helpful.

Best regards,

Paul

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 06:12:11PM -0500, Paul Knight wrote:
> A bit of follow-up on the "fi" and "ff" issue:
>
> - first, I see that the TC (?) apparently ran into the issue and introduced a
> workaround in the file /tex/makehtml.sh
>
> #For some unclear reason we get 'fi' replaced by NULL character
> #on Fedora. file recognizes result as a binary data.
>
>
> - second, for what it's worth, a bit of information which indicates that there
> may be a way to shut it off in TeX:
>
> "TeX is an example of a computer typesetting system that makes use of ligatures
> automatically. The Computer Modern Roman typeface provided with TeX includes
> the five common ligatures ff, fi, fl, ffi, and ffl. When TeX finds these
> combinations in a text it substitutes the appropriate ligature, **unless
> overridden by the typesetter.**" [1]
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature#Computer_typesetting
>
> This isn't an area where I can likely be of much help other than to wish you
> luck...
>
> Best regards,
> Paul

Do we still have this issue?
I don't see the problem in the pdf here:
https://www.oasis-open.org/news/announcements/30-day-public-review-for-virtual-i-o-device-virtio-v1-0
words like specification and offset all appear fine now.

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