improved the note in the description of how 'text' and equality interact

svn: r16627
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Robby Findler 2009-11-09 00:11:51 +00:00
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@ -413,5 +413,13 @@ Equality testing may contain a few nuances, though:
is true, but that subtle aspects of font drawing may be wrong, since is true, but that subtle aspects of font drawing may be wrong, since
the underlying toolkit only gets a single letter at a time, instead the underlying toolkit only gets a single letter at a time, instead
of the entire word (or sentence). of the entire word (or sentence).
The most obvious way that this shows up is in the handling of ligatures.
For example, the letter combinations ``ff'' and ``fi'' and ``fl'' are
generally drawn intertwined when they appear together, and thus an ``f''
drawn separately from an ``i'' looks different than the ligature ``fi''.
For example, here is how 24 point Times font looks when the word ``difficult''
is drawn, first with ligatures and then without:
@centerline{@image["2htdp/scribblings/ligature.png"]}.
} }
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