LyX, LaTeX, PS, PDF

[John Abreau]

>   Ah, wait!  A search for "fi ligature" on Google turned up this as the
> second match:
> 
> 	http://mmrc.caltech.edu/colin/other/misc/20020701/
> 
>   Sure enough, that matches my symptoms.  Apparently, my funky character is,
> in fact, a "pound symbol" (a British pound, I presume).  The fix mentioned
> in the above URL (editing the dvips config.pdf file) works for me.

It shouldn't look like a pound symbol; it should look like an "f" and 
an undotted  "i" run together. Similarly, an "ffi" sequence should appear 
as two "f"s and an undotted "i" run together.

Printed on paper in a proportional serif font, these ligatures do in fact 
make the page look cleaner. They wouldn't look so good in a monospaced 
font, if the ligatures were even defined in the font. If you're examining 
the resulting text in an xterm, for instance, I'd assume the behavior 
would
be undefined. 


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