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On Apr 7, 2020, at 11:05 AM, Timo Korhonen via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

Thanks Martin, that tool would have been nice to have but I did not know.

I converted html-files to rst and I just saw now that the ligatures were in the html already.
One is always wiser afterwards but of course I should have checked. Next time I know.

I have to think about the pre-commit hooks; at the moment I have no idea if and how it would be possible in the readthedocs context.

Cheers,

Timo

On 07/04/20 17:08, "Konrad, Martin" <konrad at frib.msu.edu> wrote:

   Hi Timo,

Finally I was able to track the reason to pdflatex producing too many
errors because it could not handle “ligatures” in the UTF-8 files.

   Yeah, LaTeX doesn't want you to use ligatures in the source. It will of
   course automatically use them in the output to improve readability. So
   whenever you are copying text from a LaTeX-generated PDF file into your
   source you run into this problem.

   Here is a Python solution [1] that might help with replacing them. Would
   it make sense to turn that into a Git pre-commit hook? This would also
   give us the opportunity to run additional style checks in the future
   (e.g. prevent users from committing files with spaces at the end of a
   line etc.). The downside of pre-commit hooks is that they aren't copied
   automatically when cloning a repo.

   -Martin

   [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/9175406/7583635

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