Re: TeX ligatures in XeTeX/LuaTeX: ``who needs them''?

[Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>]

Am 2007-12-09 um 00:10 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:

>> In some old documents. In newer documents I use \quote and  
>> \quotation.
>> Then there are documents that need to move back and forth between  
>> latex
>> and context but for them I can easily define appropriate macros in  
>> latex.
>
> To be honest: I never had the slightest idea how to get proper
> (Slovenian, "lower nine double quote") quotation marks in LaTeX (or
> what's the suggested way to do it :). That's why I now use
> \def\quotation#1{...} in LaTeX as well (in case I need to fix other
> people's stuff).

Since I found ConTeXt (did only 1 LaTeX project before), I’m using  
\quote/\quotation

IMO we are allowed to force ConTeXt users to use that or proper  
characters.

>>> Some ligatures are handy indeed:
>>>  -- -> endash
>>>  --- -> emdash
>>
>>>  ' -> right single quote (I'm, isn't etc.)
>>
>> Sure. Those three replacements/ligatures were not under a question.
> They should stay, IMO.

+1 from me, there seems to be no alternative if your keyboard mapping  
doesn’t allow to input such directly.

(Even if I like to encourage people to write their own enhanced  
keymaps if theirs doesn’t contain what they need – my one gives me  
all European characters except Cyrillic ’cause I don’t need it...)


Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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