[XeTeX] emdash and endash

[David Carlisle]

It should work

\documentclass{article}
\listfiles
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}


a---b

\end{document}


makes an emdash for me with current texlive.

If you have an example that fails can you show log from such a test
(\listfiles makes a list of package versions at the end of the log)


On 17 February 2017 at 21:22, Johann Spies <johann.spies at alterit.co.za> wrote:
> I suspect it was after the last update of texlive (now 2016.20170123-2)
> on my Debian Testing system that it happened that
>
> --- no longer compiles like \textemdash{}
> and
> -- no longer like \textendash{}
>
> It stays as typed.
>
> I do not want to go through all my files to change --- to \textemdash{}
> etc.
>
> Is there some setting that I can insert to force xelatex to compile it
> correctly?
>
> Regards
> Johann
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