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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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