[XeTeX] mapping=tex-text and weird ligatures

[Keith J. Schultz]

Hi Everybody,

	Just getting into xetex. The --/--- convention is handy.
	The TeX way would be to define say \ndash and \mdash and
	connect them to the proper glyphs. This could be done in xunicode,
	or xltctra. It is possible to put it into fontspec, but I think
	there it might be out of place.

	regards
		Keith.

Am 13.06.2008 um 09:42 schrieb Will Robertson:

> On 13/06/2008, at 4:58 PM, Joseph Wright wrote:
>
>> I'd agree.  The --/--- convention is very handy, as I don't  
>> imagine many
>> keyboards have a convenient key for these.  I'd also say that the
>> apostrophe convention is pretty hard-wired for a lot of people, given
>> that this is very much "part of TeX".  Unlike Ulrike, I stick with  
>> using
>> ``/'' as I'm almost always writing in English, so again it is very  
>> useful.
>
> It's easy to type en-dash and em-dash on Mac OS X: option+hyphen  
> and shift+option+hyphen. This isn't point-scoring or anything, just  
> to point out that different keyboards and platforms change what's  
> easy for different people.
>
> The tex-text mapping is designed more as a "backwards  
> compatibility" measure for old documents. I don't really see the  
> advantage of writing a new mapping for new documents only,  
> especially given that some people don't need ``/'', some people  
> don't need --/---, and so on. I'd say there are vanishingly few  
> cases where people find the few mappings such as `? inconvenient.
>
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