TeX may break up ligatures into their constituent characters during line breaking / hyphenation, causing problems with WYSWYIG editing.
Consider the word "different" in the following example. The two characters "ff" will usually be combined into a ligature (note: this is one character in the DVI):
During paragraph forming / line breaking, however, TeX may decide that the optimal break point in a line is between the two f's of the ligature. In such cases, the ligature is converted back to the original characters, and a hyphen is inserted between them:
Up to and including version 1.18, Compositor could not figure out source information for the original characters of a broken-up ligature.
ktraunmueller
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2 years ago
TeX may break up ligatures into their constituent characters during line breaking / hyphenation, causing problems with WYSWYIG editing.
Consider the word "different" in the following example. The two characters "ff" will usually be combined into a ligature (note: this is one character in the DVI):
During paragraph forming / line breaking, however, TeX may decide that the optimal break point in a line is between the two f's of the ligature. In such cases, the ligature is converted back to the original characters, and a hyphen is inserted between them:
Up to and including version 1.18, Compositor could not figure out source information for the original characters of a broken-up ligature.