[XeTeX] mapping=tex-text and weird ligatures

Ulrike Fischer news2 at nililand.de
Fri Jun 13 09:02:26 CEST 2008


Am Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:48:19 +0200 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:

> Jonathan has already answered the question, but one more observation
> for the others - in ConTeXt we felt that some of the ligatures were
> sensible (namely, three of them - endash, emdash and apostrophe),
> while the others (like `?) are more like leftovers that are not really
> desirable/needed in Unicode world, so we added additional mapping to
> the ConTeXt distribution (loaded automatically when one uses
> "features=default" in high level user interface). That mapping only
> uses the three above mentioned ligatures.
> 
> Anyone on this list sharing the thoughts? 

I think it would be fine if these three where activated by default. 
(I need only -- and --- as I'm using csquotes for the quotes).


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Ulrike Fischer 



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