[XeTeX] problems with fontspec and german sharp s ligature
Niels Provos
provos at citi.umich.edu
Wed Apr 9 05:05:47 CEST 2008
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Yves Codet <ycodet at club-internet.fr> wrote:
> Being no expert I couldn't say where your problem comes from but it
Yes, you are right. Removing the input encoding worked nicely.
> In Unicode you can write ß directly.
Only if you have a keyboard with an ß character. On a US keyboard, I
will have to live with "s.
> Maybe the following would be even better, since François created a
> replacement of Babel, Polyglossia which especially meant for XeTeX:
I tried Polyglossia, but unfortunately, it no longer recognizes my umlauts:
"a is converted into ''a instead of ä
etc. However, babel seems to work fine, even if some of the
hyphenations look incorrect.
Thank you for your help,
Niels.
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