[XeTeX] mapping=tex-text and weird ligatures

[Mark Eli Kalderon]

On 6/18/2008, "James Crippen" <jcrippen at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 23:04, Will Robertson <wspr81 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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).
>>
[snip]
>I don't think monospace font designers ever consider issues like this
>because they don't expect people to *want* to use the different
>dashes. Which is naïve, but still. A little effort to differentiate
>them as is done in Monaco would help a lot. Those of you using open
>source monospace fonts should point this out to the developers.

Droid Sans Mono is a monospace font that nicely distinguishes en and em
dashes.