General ⇒ How to disable ligatures?

[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!

Thank you.

[localghost]

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).


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[A.ndi]

disable ligatures:

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\usepackage{microtype}
\DisableLigatures{encoding = *, family = * }

Best regards,
Andreas

[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.