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


On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:28:58PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 08:10:36PM +0000, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 16:38 -0500, Paul Knight wrote:
> > > Hi Rusty and all,
> > > 
> > > An interesting item, which I don't think will affect publication, shows up
> > > in the HTML versions of the documents:
> > > 
> > > It is probably related to kerning with the LaTex system:
> > > 
> > > There are combined letters "fi" (as opposed to the individual letters
> > > "fi")in the word "Specification" on the front page and elsewhere, and
> > > various occurrences of double-f "ff", which are actually represented by
> > > non-ascii characters.  (This may or may not show up in this email for your
> > > amusement.)
> > 
> > Ah, I'm afraid this is probably a Linux thing.  We all use Linux and the
> > characters above actually render correctly as ligatures in all our font
> > systems.  I suspect windows, not having the TeX/LaTeX heritage doesn't
> > know what to do with them, but none of us proofreading would actually
> > see the problem ... we probably need proofreader who actually uses
> > windows to avoid other issues like this in future.
> > 
> > > Luckily, these do not occur in the URIs, as far as I have been able to
> > > see... that would be a problem.
> > 
> > No, TeX won't use ligatures in URIs
> > 
> > > For future publications, is there some control over "kerning" to prevent
> > > this?  I think we can live with it, but it's an interesting element which
> > > could cause problems in some situations.
> > 
> > Yes, we can turn it off entirely using the fontspec package.  
> > 
> > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/
> > 
> > I think the command is 
> > 
> > \defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=NoCommon,NoRequired,NoRare}
> > 
> > James
> 
> {} would be needed around a list:
> 
> \defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures={NoCommon,NoRequired,NoRare}}
> 
> We would also need to drop Mapping=tex-text and maybe add NoContextual
> just in case. NoRare is off by default so should not be needed.
> 
> 
> But we do have this problem with htlatex and I don't know
> how to fix it properly yet.
> 
> 

this bug report seems to be related:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=307647

but I don't understand what's suggested there.



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