From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19230 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Adam Lindsay" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Getting a barred l for all the wrong reasons Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:57 +0000 Message-ID: <20050321000057.29202@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> References: <09a525c6953460354b0d56d2b2e72b12@trichotomic.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111363329 27276 80.91.229.2 (21 Mar 2005 00:02:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:02:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Mar 21 01:02:09 2005 Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDAMt-00064F-5C for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:02:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23B5012890; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:04:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32253-06; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:04:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60566127DD; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:01:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A78127DD for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:01:13 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32253-05 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:01:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk [148.88.3.45]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A20DB1278D for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:01:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [192.168.31.119] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2L0112f025091 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:01:10 GMT Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: <09a525c6953460354b0d56d2b2e72b12@trichotomic.net> X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail version 5.1 build 4340 English X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-MailScanner-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-MailScanner-To: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:19230 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:19230 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... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-