On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 4/26/2013 11:48 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
PS: if you really hate the ligatures, you can try to help improve this "interesting" package to handle ligatures (it probably has the most potential in engines other than XeTeX/LuaTeX because it's a bit more complicated to turn off the ligatures there): http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/serbian-lig The package defines commands for all the words from a dictionary which contain letters "fi", for example \def\profit{prof\kern 0.03em it\xspace} \def\Gadafi{Gadaf\kern 0.03em i\xspace}
whow .. it probably dates from the time before we had scripting languages that could parse text, although in that time tex's hash table/string space was too small to accomodate dictionaries
No, it's from 2011 and it is part of TeX Live. While many packages are kicked out of TeX Live (including ConTeXt documentation) for all weird reasons, not just sloppy licencing, there is no reasonable way to vote against inclusion of weird packages.
pdftex has \noligs -)
Try to explain that to the author ... Mojca