Re: Ligaturing

From: Timothy Partridge (timpart@perdix.demon.co.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 15 1997 - 15:25:39 EDT


> Otto Stolz recently said:
>
> On Aug 14, 13:21, Timothy Partridge wrote:
> > The book "Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University
> > Press Oxford" [...] mentions that
> > ffi and ffl ligatures should never be used in German.
>
> This agrees with the rules given in the Duden "Rechtschreibung" --
> though I cannot understand the reason for this particular rule.

I've just noticed that Hart's rules cites Duden as "a useful reference book",
so the OUP may simply be taking Duden as the authority.

   Tim

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