Ligatures in the text

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 10/22/20 1:59 PM, Kornel Benko wrote:
> Am Thu, 22 Oct 2020 19:47:41 +0200
> schrieb Andreas Plihal <a.plihal at gmx.at>:
>
>> Dear JMarc,
>>   
>> I was quite suprised too. I have enclosed this mail a MWE: I see there are no
>> ligatures, no matter if I use
>> • Adobe Acrobat Reader
>> • GIMP
>> • Firefox
>> • Edge
>> • Chrome
>> • ...
>> Cheers
>> Andreas
>>   
>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2020 um 12:56 Uhr
>> Von: "Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" <lasgouttes at lyx.org>
>> An: "Andreas Plihal" <a.plihal at gmx.at>, lyx-users at lists.lyx.org
>> Betreff: Re: Ligatures in the text
>> Le 21/10/2020 à 17:54, Andreas Plihal a écrit :
>>> Dear community,
>>> I'm producing a KOMA-script-book with LyX (V 2.3.5.2, on Windows 10) and
>>> want create ligatures. The LyX-documentation says:
>> Dear Andreas,
>>
>> If you are talking about the basic ff, fi, etc. ligatures, I am
>> surprised that you do not get them automatically. If so, could you send
>> a short example file that shows the issue?
>>
>> For more complicated font-related, as Rich said, it is necessary to use
>> some explicit LaTeX commands.
>>
>> JMarc
>>
>>> /It is a typesetting practice to contract certain letters and print them
>>> like one. /
>>> /These combinations are called ligatures. Since LaTeX knows ligatures,
>>> your documents written with LyX will have them too. /
>>> My document has it not!
>>> /Here are the possible ligatures ... But sometimes you don't want
>>> ligatures in a word .../
>>> And then it is explained the contrary: how to prevent ligatures in the text.
>>> Please, could you help me in that case?
>>> Cheers
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>   
>>
> Setting the font to DejaVu (instead of Palatino) shows the ligatures.
>
> 	Kornel
>
Same with changing to "default" font. Apparently there is a problem with 
the way ligatures look in Palatino.

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94399/can-ligatures-be-enabled-for-palatino-and-pdflatex

Paul