Both classical and modern practice is to write the letters separately, but the ligature was used in medieval and early modern writings, in part because "Œ" was reduced to a simple long vowel (IPA [e:]) in late Latin[?].
In computing, OE is an initialism for Outlook Express, a mail client[?] application from Microsoft.
Hello, Hello, The french oeligature is encoded as {\oe} by my LaTeX emacs mode.
I could solve the problem by editing the syntax.defaults file (replacing \oe by {\oe} provides \oe{} in the translated LyX file), but I'm not sure that it could not be solved on the LyX side.
I hope that it is not too late to include a correction in the 0.12.1 final release, in one way or another - the reLyX one seems easier to implement (\OE should be modified the same, and perhaps ae and other constructs - for french users, oe is quite frequent).
While printed documents should ideally use œ systematically whenever "e" folllows "o" and is not marked with a diaresis, this usage is not always respected.
Writing never makes the distinction between "oe" and "œ".
The symbol "œ" is also used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for a rounded open-mid front vowel.
The simplest and safest way to deal with the problem that ISO Latin 1 does not contain the oeligature character is to use just the two characters "oe".
There is however a method that avoids the accessibility problems, yet achieves the desired presentational effect in a large number of browsing situations.
The idea is to use the character pair oe (or Oe or OE, as the case may be) but with style sheet techniques that suggest reduced spacing between the characters.
Note 1: The Ligature that spans two characters is constructed of two halves in MARC-8: EB (Ligature, first half) and EC (Ligature, second half).
The single character Ligature is encoded between the two characters to be spanned.
The two half Ligatures in Unicode, to which the Ligature has been mapped since 1996, are indicted in the mapping as alternatives, but their use is not recommended.
The German ß is a ligature too; the first character is that uncrossed "f" that once was used for "s" in the middle of words.
The ligature was excluded from the older character set partly because it is not the business of character sets to include ligatures (except, apparently, German ones), but mostly to annoy the French.
Ø is not a ligature because it's an O with a slash through it, not two conjoined letters; å I don't think would be considered a ligature because the little o isn't actually joined to the a below it.
La ligature est quant à elle une ligature "linguistique" ou "orthographique", dans la mesure où, en français, elle est obligatoire pour certains mots (cur) et interdite pour d'autres (coexister), peu importe la police de caractères utilisée.
From a typographical point of view, the joining of two or more letters in a single character is called a "ligature." For example, the character & (the ampersand) is a ligature representing in stylized form the two letters of the [Latin] word et ['and']....
The ligature is a "linguistic" or "orthographic" one, inasmuch as in French it is required in certain words (cur) and forbidden in others (coexister), whatever font is used.
Be especially aware that the character set does NOT contain the oe-ligature.
Common Microsoft extended versions of the set DO contain the letter but since its use is not part of the ISO-standard I have avoided it; 'oe' is used instead.
The 13th century Icelandic that is the focus of the course does not require hooked o with accent and we have not defined a replacement for it.
I think that we would do it only if we (1) couldn't distinguish the forms of the glyphs in the book; or (2) were confident that one glyph was in fact being used in the book deliberately to stand for two different ligatures.
It is possible that the latter is true of this book, but it may simply be that the printer (or author) is a bad speller, or indifferent to the ae/oe distinction.
A true italic oe does appear once, so it was presumably available.
