great moments in typesetting

I’m reading Ken Macleod’s novel The Execution Channel (Tor hardcover 2007). It appears that someone replaced every ‘fi’ or ‘fl’ with a ligature, without checking case.

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5 Responses to great moments in typesetting

  1. Bill Detty says:

    Weird.

    I’d think whatever typesetting/layout software Tor uses would be able to substitute ligatures automatically and correctly. Whether an individual is aware of that capability is another thing, of course. (I still know people who try to create hanging indents with returns and spaces.)

  2. Anton says:

    Toward the end of the book I spotted a couple of correct “Fi”s (before the last wrong “fi”). I could easily have missed some “dogs that did nothing in the night-time”.

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  4. Anton says:

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