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Monkey D
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How to disable ligatures?

Post by Monkey D »

Is there any way to disable ligatures at a global level?

I hate it when "fi" gets replaced by one character... and I'm sure there are lots of other cases.
Many people like latex because of this feature... Well, no me... it's just a really annoying way to ruin search in pdf files! :x

Thank you.
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How to disable ligatures?

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Try a postscript font from the psnfss (Postscript New Font Selection Scheme) or other fonts like the pxfonts (Palatino style) or txfonts (Times style). Other nice (almost complete) font shapes are provided by the kpfonts and libertine. All these fonts should preferably be used with T1 encoding (Cork Encoding).


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A.ndi
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How to disable ligatures?

Post by A.ndi »

disable ligatures:

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\usepackage{microtype}
\DisableLigatures{encoding = *, family = * }
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Keta
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How to disable ligatures?

Post by Keta »

it's just a really annoying way to ruin search in pdf files!
What kind of package, compiler, viewer, etc. are you using? I did a try, and using both latex and pdflatex the "fi" string was searchable with Evince.
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