Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

[Mark Polesky]

Urs,

I missed the big discussion earlier, but has anyone mentioned FreeSerif?

http://www.fontspace.com/gnu-freefont/freeserif
I'm getting some good results with lyrics.  I particularly like that it has all 
5
of the common English ligatures 0xFB00 - 0xFB04 (ff fi fl ffi ffl).  Century
Schoolbook only has two (ff and fi).

Some or all of these characters may get mangled in the email delivery, but
here they are:

0xFB00  ff  (ff)
0xFB01  fi  (fi)
0xFB02  fl  (fl)
0xFB03  ffi  (ffi)
0xFB04  ffl  (ffl)


test sentence with ligatures:
office flight raffle, final offer


test sentence, spelled out completely:
office flight raffle, final offer

TeXGyreSchola has good ligature support, too:

http://www.fontspace.com/gust-e-foundry/texgyreschola

But I prefer the look of FreeSerif.

- Mark