From: "Berend de Boer" <berend@pobox.com>
Subject: RE: Setting double hypens --
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 19:10:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <006001bfc410$b2382cd0$0321a8c0@bmach.nederware.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00052102494306.00227@leonore>
> >In certain fonts the -- produces weird effects because the - isn't a
> >straight dash, but something a bit more fancy.
> >
> >Is it possible in context to replace -- by {\ss --} (or so)?
> >
>
> STOP!
>
> -, --, --- and $-$ are all different glyphs!
>
> '-' hyphen
> '--' endash
> '---' emdash (_not_ used in german!)
>
> if '--' or '---' produces weired effects that is just an error in the
> (virtual) font where these character sequences aren't
> properly mapped (as
> a ligature) to the appropriate glyph.
Hello Uwe,
Quite correct. But this font has no mapping of -- (and I doubt if there is a
suitable thing in that font file). So context appends two --.
And because the - is drawn with the left side a bit lower (swirling up) and
the right side a bit higher (also swirling up) two -- produce a strange
effect.
So I have to fix this outside the font file.
Groetjes,
Berend. (-:
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2000-05-22 17:10 ` Berend de Boer [this message]
2000-05-22 19:30 ` Hans Hagen
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2000-05-23 6:04 ` Berend de Boer
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2000-05-22 17:06 ` Berend de Boer
2000-05-21 21:26 Uwe Koloska
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2000-05-20 20:20 Frans Goddijn
2000-05-20 8:34 Berend de Boer
2000-05-21 22:15 ` Hans Hagen
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