On Friday 28 October 2005 02:27, Alan G Isaac wrote:

> > And I'm not sure what impact the difference between "a
> > word" and "a bunch of characters" makes for the layout
> > engine.  Does LaTeX still know that "{f}{i}{s}{h}" is
> > a word, or is it just a bunch of characters with no spaces
> > inbetween?
>
> It's a word: ligatures arrive.
> But {-}{-} is different from --

With "{f}{i}{s}{h}" I get *fish* instead of *fish* from LaTeX.

> In any case, the writer is not giving us {f}{i}{s}{h}.

Ah, I missed the post with the example of `{}` just around spaces and 
non-word characters.  Sorry for the noise.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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