+ *
+ * - character substitution for better typography?
+ * * fi, fl, ffi, ffl ligatures
+ * * use real ellipsis rather than ...
+ * * a hyphen in a word by itself might prefer to be an en-dash
+ * * (Americans might even want a convenient way to use an
+ * em-dash)
+ * * substituting `minus' for `hyphen' in the standard encoding
+ * is probably preferable in Courier, though certainly not in
+ * the main text font
+ * * if I do do this lot, I'm rather inclined to at least try
+ * to think up a configurable way to do it so that Americans
+ * can do em-dash tricks without my intervention and other
+ * people can do other odd things too.