[XeTeX] Dollar signs in Adobe OTF fonts

Will Robertson wspr81 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 27 05:44:42 CEST 2007


On 27/10/2007, at 2:48 , Easter Sunshine wrote:

> While I appreciate the suggestion, tex-text mappings make less  
> sense to me than putting in actual en dashes and em dashes into the  
> source, especially since the source is UTF-8. Does this somehow  
> contradict my using \$ to typeset a dollar sign?

No, since TeX/LaTeX uses $ as syntax for entering maths mode, so \$  
is essentially the only way to get the dollar sign unless you want to  
disable the usual meaning of "$". Writing the punctuation in unicode  
is a very good idea if it's convenient for you :)

Cheers,
Will
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