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 "?" (as opposed to the individual letters > > "fi")in the word "Speci?cation" on the front page and elsewhere, and >
> various occurrences of double-f "?", 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.
