Re: Suppressing ligatures and hyphenation

On 30 mai, 21:43, trn <trn...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am interested in creating a temporary PDF file with ligatures and
hyphenation suppressed throughout the document. The reason for this is
I'd like to cut and past the text into a program that analyzes word
count, proximity, etc. As you may imagine, hyphenation and ligatures
don't cut and paste well. The problem with cutting and pasting the
LaTeX code to analyze is that items such as references, definitions, and
abbreviations are not expanded.

Ideas? I do apologize if the answer is in the archives somewhere. I
was unsuccessful in my searches.

trn

I think you are speaking about the "f" ligatures.

Usually a teletype font has no "f" ligature, if you use one as
default, it will be running without ligature

Christophe
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