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

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

2007/12/9, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>:
> On Dec 9, 2007 5:07 PM, Willi Egger wrote:
> > > or even more weird ones:
> > >   !` -> inverted exclam
> > >   ?` -> inverted question
> >
> > For Spanish this is definitevely necessary. Again if coded in UTF
> > there is no problem.
>
> Do Spansh users still key them in like that (apart from old TeX-ies
> who have never heard abot anything beyond \v, \", \')? I mean: would
> anyone miss those two ligatures? (I assume that people need to use
> inverted quotation marks in Word as well ...)
>
> Ono problem is that that's a "well known" TeX behaviour though
> (documented in beginner's manual as well).
>
> > > Some ligatures are handy indeed:
> > >   -- -> endash
> > >   --- -> emdash
> > >   ' -> right single quote (I'm, isn't etc.)
> >
> > Sure this is important, I suggest to add the horizontal ellipsis
>
> \dots? But what if one decides to use, say, 10 dots in a row? That

\periods[10]

> might lead to weird effects (non-evenly spaced dots). -- and --- have
> been well established, so one would be careful enough before writing
> "----------". And there's \dots, so that one could have been mapped to
> ellipsis if needed.

10 periods in the file should give 3 ellipsis and 1 single dot.

> Thanks,
>     Mojca

Wolfgang
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