Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Ligature "fj" not working

[MNorrish]

Hello all,

I'm running pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) (out of the box). If I try typing e.g.

latex test.txt; xdvi test.dvi

then the output has fj written as two separate characters, not ligated. Note that the ff, fi and ffi ligatures work fine. What should I do to ligate fj? Thank you for your time.

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\documentclass[a5paper,12pt]{book}
\author{Mark Norrish}
\title{Test fjordism}
\begin{document}

fj fjord fj\"ord

fire stuff affine

\end{document}

[localghost]

As far as I know this ligature is quite rare and presumably LaTeX simply doesn't support it. My research for a remedy has come to nothing. Perhaps you can find a solution in using Xe(La)TeX which can handle Open Type Fonts (OTF). Sometimes the depiction of ligatures depends on the used font. At the moment I'm not aware of any font that supports this ligature and can be used with PDFLaTeX.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[MNorrish]

Thank you. It doesn't really matter anyway (you're right - fj almost never happens).