LaTeX Beginners Guide

Time for action – exploring ligatures

We will check out Example 3 to discover a ligature. Afterwards, we will have a close look at the default ligatures:

1. Open Example 3 in TeXworks, click the Typeset button. Move the mouse pointer into the output window, right over the word first, and then click the left button.
   
2. Go to the editor window, and then add a paragraph break by with empty line and the following letter combinations: ff fi flffiffl -- ---
3. Add a paragraph break, repeat the preceding line, but this time insert \/ between the letters: f\/f f\/i f\/l f\/f\/i f\/f\/l -\/- -\/-\/-
4. Typeset and compare the letters in the output:

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