End-of-flow wildcard? [footnote to the Word/Frame/ligature story]

[Steve Rickaby]

In e-mails from the authors, read here as pure text, ligatures such as 'fi' and 'fl' appear as 'I dunno' characters: blank squares. When pasted into FrameMaker, the ligatures render correctly. However, FrameMaker puts a word break around them: for example, double-clicking on 'flow' highlights just the 'ow' part.

Running a global find/replace on 'fl' and 'fi' and replacing them with themselves, i.e. 'f' and 'l' or 'f'' and 'i' typed into the Replace box, fixes the issue: FrameMaker can find the ligatures and correctly replace them with the relevant two-character pair.

Weird...
-- 
Steve