[XeTeX] mapping=tex-text and weird ligatures

[Will Robertson]

On 18/06/2008, at 5:05 PM, James Cloos wrote:

> I can get [dashes] under X11 as well, using  
> <Multi_Key><dash><dash><period>
> and <Multi_Key><dash><dash><dash>, but cannot tell the difference
> between the – and — glyphs in my editor’s font

Yes, this is SO frustrating. I wish that code editors would start  
taking more notice of the various characters that they current have  
incredibly poor support for (e.g., visible differences between the  
large handful of different spacing glyphs in unicode, and so on).

I'd be very happy if the en-dash mapped to a 1.5-charwidth wide glyph  
in a double-width character and the em-dash mapped to a full double- 
width character. Or we could just stop using fixed width fonts for our  
code :)

Will
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