Has anybody ever seen or come across a f + � (that�s f + acute i) ligature? Words in Spanish such as dif�cil (difficult) and f�sica (physics) are quite common, but I have never seen such a thing as a f+� ligature, but then again I�m just a newbie. Any comments will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
I've seen them occasionally -- sorry can't remember the names of any typefaces off-hand -- but they are uncommon and, typically, of little use. The problem is that in an fi ligature it is typical for the overhang of the f to replace the dot of the i. The only way to have sufficient space for an accent above the i is to either move the i further from the f or to retract the overhang of the f; in either case, you usually cease to have a need for a ligature.
Good stuff from Typo-L:
http://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0312&L=typo-l&D=0&I=-3&P=4349
John: Or you could fuse the "f" terminal and the acute, just like is usually done with an "fi" ligature.
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I've thought about such a ligature but never seen one. Storm sells at least one package with f-ligatures for f next to an umlauted (dieresis) vowel. Helzel's version of Wilhelm Klingspor-Schrift includes some long-s ligatures with the dieresis compressed and shifted over somewhat. They may have been part of Koch's original design.
Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen wrote about an acute fi ligature to the TeX-NL list back in 1992, it would appear. That's all I can find about it. Mrs Eaves Opentype contains accented quaint ligatures, including a capital acute fi.
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