To: CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru
Subject: Re: *complete* WLCY
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From: Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru>
Date: 17 Dec 1999 11:09:54 +0300
In-Reply-To: Laurent Siebenmann's message of "Fri, 17 Dec 1999 04:53:48 +0100"
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Dear Laurent,

"LS" == Laurent Siebenmann writes:

 LS> Do remove the absurd ligatures [[ and ]]!

 LS> As for adding ligatures << and >>, I would do this if and only if
 LS> you provide such ligatures in all related fonts including the T2x
 LS> fonts.

yes. all other cyrillic encodings have these ligatures: T2*, X2, LCY.

Will AMS agree to have << and >> ligatured added to WLCY fonts?

 LS> The argument for all these ligatures seems parallel to that for
 LS> `` and '' in Knuth fonts.  I am in favor, and wish they were in
 LS> EC for French.

they are available in EC! just \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, and there
will be ligatures << and >> for guillemets.

and one more question: should one also remove the ligature
N 0 => numero
it seems to be kind of absurd too (provided that [[ and ]] are absurd :)

	Best regards, -- Vladimir.
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