Re: inactive -- and ---

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

I just looked into font conversion for another project. In EC.enc,  
you have this line:

% LIGKERN hyphen hyphen =: endash ; endash hyphen =: emdash ;

so fonts converted by texfont and using --enc=ec should have the  
dashes enabled automagically. The problem I had was with the f- 
ligatures, I had to manually add these lines:

% LIGKERN f f =: ff ; f i =: fi ; f l =: fl ;
% LIGKERN ff f =: fff ; ff i =: ffi ; ff l =: ffl ;

In general, texnansi still seems to be doing a better job with this  
sort of thing. The ligkern instructions are not mentioned explicitly  
in texnansi.enc, but they are still used, so I assume texfont has  
them hardwired into its own code somewhere. May be Adam knows more  
about it?

Best

Thomas

On Nov 20, 2005, at 2:14 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>> Hraban,
>> AFAIK, -- and --- aren't active, but they (should) produce  
>> ligatures,  so the problem is most probably at the level of the  
>> tfms you  produced. How did you obtain them? By running texfont?  
>> Which encoding  are you using?
>
> \defaultencoding expands to 'ec' these days (used to be 'texnansi').
> Perhaps that is the problem?
>
> Taco
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