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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss,comp.misc Subject: Re: China: Government Starts Phasing Out American Processors, Operating Systems on Government Computers Date: 31 Mar 2024 14:53:17 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 25 Message-ID: <uubtct$iol$1@panix2.panix.com> References: <utvu0p$8nhi$1@news.mixmin.net> <uu95bi$ak6$1@panix2.panix.com> <87a5mfo100.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere> <ttsi0jt6asjnieo5mdm0d14hbvdq9eofva@dim53.demon.nl> Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="26258"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1720 Kees Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl> wrote: >On 30 Mar 2024 18:36:47 -0300, Mike Spencer ><mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote: > >> I understand the reasoning behind the existence of the >> f-ligatures but not st, less so why it would be used in >> an electronic doc. > >Wild guess: if there are also 'nd', 'rd' and 'th' ligatures, it >is probably meant for constructs like >1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, ... etc. > >Also, some of the ligatures could be used for "kerning". > ><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)> ><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning> On the linotype kerning isn't handled by a separate type mold like ligatures are, but there is a lever that you pull to enable it to squish molds together. I don't know how it works inside the mechanism. With handset type it varies depending on the font. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."