Re: Font ligatures in wiki pages

From: Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:35:22 +0000
Subject: Re: Font ligatures in wiki pages
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On 26/02/2021 15:03, Benjamin Morel wrote:
 Is there any reason why you'd want any ligatures on this website, though? Shouldn't font-variant-ligatures: none be applied anyway?
Well, for the same reason you'd want them anywhere: because they look nicer. In this case, all it's supposed to do is join up the cross-bars on the two fs: https://imgur.com/a/lqt2Ulc (Screenshot is from loading the wiki page on my local Firefox; the same rendering is shown in the image on this font catalogue: https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/sourcesanspro/) It sounds like there's a bug somewhere in your browser's rendering stack. Maybe you can apply a global setting or over-ride stylesheet to turn ligatures off locally if you can't find the bug? Regards, -- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]

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