[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#254113: Fix for Openoffice?

[Christian Perrier]

> I saw the version now in Sid has the st ligature corrected. Great!
> However, the others like ff, fl, ffi still give problems. They
> give strange effects on web pages with justified text, when viewed
> with Firefox. See for instance my own 'font and keyboard page':
> http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html. See what happens to words
> like 'file', 'difficult', 'difference', 'Openoffice' if FreeSerif
> is the display font (also when you try to select text in lines
> containing such words). This is apparently a bug in Pango (not yet
> reported in Debian, but it has been in Ubuntu:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/37828).
> Dejavu, in the meantime, has marked its Latin ligatures as
> "discretionary". Until these problems are sorted out, I suggest
> the Freefonts do the same.


I suggest a separate bug report for this. I thinked about making the
ligatures discretionary yesterday while fixing the "st" ligature but a
few tests with gedit did not convince me that this was completely
needed (while it was obvious for "st").

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