[XeTeX] Traditional TeX ligatures once again

[Jonathan Kew]

On 28 Jun 2007, at 4:46 pm, Evgenie Medvedev wrote:

> Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>> True; that just tries to emulate the behavior found in the default
>> CMR fonts (and others that follow the same pattern).
>
> 	Well, at least anyone who cares about proper typography seems to be
> using << and >>, no idea how exactly this works, although I was under
> the impression that CMR was the font I've been getting by default.

Not for Russian, I think! :) Computer Modern *Roman* is Roman, not  
Cyrillic. When you switch to Russian via Babel, it implicitly changes  
the font as well, probably to a "CM-style" Cyrillic to match the  
default Roman.

JK