Re: Getting a barred l for all the wrong reasons

["Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

dw@trichotomic.net said this at Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:47:28 -0800:

>Greetings, hopefully this is a real quickie.
>
>I'm using XeConTeXt, regime UTF, language en, hoefler encoding uc & 
>receiving a barred l for any instance of this:

Hello David,

Although you can use the utf regime with XeConTeXt, you are often better
off not using it. (It depends on which 

>l/

Yeah, this was a thread on the XeTeX list. Apparently it's an Apple-
created ligature. I think it shows up with o-slash as well. Hoefler text,
right?

workaround 1) use a different font. :P
workaround 2) insert something that would interrupt the ligature being
formed, like centripital\hbox{}/centrifugal

>Which makes it tough to have pairs like centripetal/centrifugal. :)

potential solution 3) use the much more ConTeXt-like code: centripetal|/
|centrifugal.

Hope one of those is of some help...

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