Terry -- Sorry to reply to the whole list about this, but we'd be interested in your Vandercook and the other equipment. -- Bob Blesse ... Robert E. Blesse ...
Hi Terry I am sorry to hear about your Vandercook. When I sold my 232 it was spiritual sepuku. I would very much be interested in your "guillotine (26" blade...
For Christmas I received the book Stealing God's Thunder by Philip Dray. This is a book dealing with Ben Franklin and his scientific experiments. The book is a...
Austin Could be laziness or lack of knowledge. The typesetter could also have turned ligatures off for tracking purposes. While ligatures were a necessity in...
Hello Gerald: Would you offer a snapshot of his argument? Mike ... From: PPLetterpress@yahoogroups.com [mailto:PPLetterpress@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of...
Older versions of Quark, I believe, didn't have automatic ligatures, and I think the same goes for PageMaker. (I know the newest versions of Quark do, as is...
Mike I assume this is in reference to Günter Gerhard Lange? if so. . . Can't recall off hand. I think there was some discussion in this regard on the...
Yes, good job reading my mind. It doesn't sound like much of an argument for dropping ligatures. Thanks, Mike ... From: PPLetterpress@yahoogroups.com ...
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... I gather - everyone on this list agrees with me in being frustrated at the failure to use the f ligature. The question then seems to me - How do we...
It is very simple to "turn on" the use of ligatures in page layout software like Quark or InDesign. It does not make extra work, only the awareness that this...
All the logical reasons for complaint were concisely expressed in Austins email. Those of us who think it's important ought to be complaining every time we see...
The only way to get this across to publishers is the old-fashioned way: boycott and demonstrate. Pace out front of your favorite bookstore carrying a sign with...
Claire Van Vliet will give a slide talk, "Janus Press: Fifty Years," on February 11 at 7:30 pm at Scripps College, Humanities Auditorium, Claremont, CA. The ...
As far as I can tell, there are no options regarding ligatures in Pagemaker 7.0, which I believe is the latest and last version. Does anyone know better? ...
George With Pagemaker you can do a global replace of the basic key command ligatures (fi, fl) in the story editor. Worked, or works, well. But, yes, Adobe will...
I'm pretty sure it's not an option in PageMaker 6.5, so perhaps not in 7.0. As I mentioned previously, it seems to have been added to Quark at 7.0 and picked...
David and George Actually, as I recall now, you could run any glyph from any font through the story editor. And do the global replace. Gerald Lange ...
By the way, the big advantage in the way that InDesign does ligs is that they are contextual replacements, (ala Apple's ATSUI or OpenType tables). That is,...
[I'm touching the tip of my nose here. "Right-on, Peter, you've hit it right-on."] We've talked about this before on this forum but it often falls into: ...
I recently switched from Quark Xpress on my Macintosh to Quark for Windows and found that the automatic ligatures feature was no more. I even found it...
... -and- ... in > 7.0. As I mentioned previously, it seems to have been added to Quark ... f-ligatures are available in Quark XPress 3.32 and 4.1 (the...
... Unfortunately, John, standard PostScript Type 1 text fonts for Windows do not contain the fi and fl ligatures. (These and a few other characters are only...
Once I was a Mac Quark fan, but there are many riches only to be found in InDesign. I am using CS2 for Macintosh. It automatically substitutes the mighty 5...
Setting type for a German public, the rules for setting ligatures are much more complicated. We own licenses for Indesign and for Quark, but I have to control...
