[XeTeX] tex-text and more quotes

[John Was]

Ah, I see.

Perhaps then the most valuable thing would be clear instructions on how to 
construct a mapping file (though it's usually possible to pick up the basics 
just by examining an existing one).   I presume that the line invoking a 
font can only accept one 'mapping=' instruction, so to avoid interfering 
with an existing stable mapping file such as tex-text would it be helpful to 
have an additional command 'supplmaping=' which would add further 
user-generated (pseudo-)ligatures that the user finds convenient in a 
particular job or font?

Best


John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Apostolos Syropoulos" <asyropoulos at yahoo.com>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 11:57 AM
Subject: JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] tex-text and more quotes


> >Rather than having those responsible for updating XeTeX code trying to
>>anticipate all the (pseudo-)ligatures that individual users might require,
>>could we have some sort of primitive (e.g. \myligs) which would invoke a
>>simple table of mappings (e.g. a file myligs.lig) that the user finds
>>convenient:
>>
>>(( -> \char'...... etc. (for true ligatures one would want the syntax to
>>include instructions for deconsructing the ligature at end-line 
>>hyphenation
>>points)
> That is exactly what I suggested. For example, one can use fonts as 
> follows:
>
> \font\XX="Mitsos-Regular/ICU:script=grek,+hlig,+clig:mapping=lgr-text"
> \font\YY="Kitsos-Regular/ICU:script=latn,+hlig,+clig:mapping=t1-text"
>
> And this is a feature currently supported by XeTeX.
>
> Regards,
> A.S.
>
> PS The T1 "ligatures" are not standard ligatures as are those currently
> supported in tex-text.
>
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