From: David Starner ([email protected])
Date: Mon Nov 05 2007 - 08:45:05 CST
On 11/5/07, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:
> > c) there is no need for a ligature anyway, so why force one (that is
> > visually distinct from not ligating) for "fliegen", or
>
> Is there ever a typographical need for a ligature in the latin script?
Yes, of course. fl and fi exist solely for typographic reasons; with
fi in particular, you either get an awkward space between the two, or
you get the top of the f crashing into the dot of the i.
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