[OS X TeX] --- .neq m-dash

[Michael Kubovy]

On Jun 9, 2007, at 8:05 AM, Robert Spence wrote:

> Michael,
>
> On 09 Jun 2007, at 13:50 , Michael Kubovy wrote:
>
>> Dear TeXers,
>>
>> With the following preamble
>> %%!TEX TS-program = xelatexmk
>> %%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>>
>> \documentclass[twocolumn,11pt]{article}
>> \usepackage[pdftitle={Gestalt  
>> Detection},colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue]{hyperref}
>
> The hyperref package should come last of all, to give it a fighting  
> chance of not being clobbered (it redefines many LaTeX macros).   
> Also, you need
> \usepackage{xunicode}
> and/or
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> ... I forget which one actually does the trick...
>
>> \usepackage{graphicx}
>> \usepackage[hang,small,sc]{caption}
>> \usepackage{amssymb}
>> \usepackage{amsmath} %
>> \usepackage{fancyhdr}
>> \usepackage{xspace}
>> \usepackage{tabularx}
>> \usepackage{apacite}
>> \usepackage[left=.5in, right = .5in, top=.6in, bottom = .6in] 
>> {geometry}
>> \usepackage{subfigure}
>> \usepackage{sectsty}
>> \usepackage[cm-default]{fontspec}
>> \setmainfont{Palatino}
>> \allsectionsfont{\sffamily\mdseries\upshape}
>> \pagestyle{fancy}
>>
>> --- shows up as --- instead of an m-dash
>>
>> Any suggestions?

Apparently the problem is not due to hyperref. Nor do Robert's  
suggestions fix the problem here. This fails to produce an m-dash

%%!TEX TS-program = xelatexmk
%%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[cm-default]{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Palatino}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\usepackage{xunicode}

\title{Brief Article}
\author{The Author}
%\date{}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

here---it is

\end{document}

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