Getting a barred l for all the wrong reasons

Getting a barred l for all the wrong reasons

[dw]

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:

l/

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

Any clues?
Kind regards,
David

Re: Getting a barred l for all the wrong reasons

[Adam Lindsay]

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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Re: Getting a barred l for all the wrong reasons

[Adam Lindsay]

Adam Lindsay said this at Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:57 +0000:

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

[oops, sent too soon...]
Using the UTF regime with XeConTeXt makes you reliant on the characters
defined in enco-uc/unic-0xx. Not using the UTF regime means that
XeConTeXt passes the unicode directly to Apple's font engine, so you then
rely on the characters defined in the font. It's a tricky trade-off in
some cases, but most of the time, don't bother with \enableregime[utf]
with XeConTeXt.

adam
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Re: Getting a barred l for all the wrong reasons

[dw]

Hi Adam,

Yes, the Hoefler text…although not by my choosing ;)

The centripetal|/|centriputal "trick" did the trick. Thanks again,

David


On Mar 20, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Adam Lindsay wrote:

> 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...