Re: Two hyphens do not give en dash

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

Ville Voipio said this at Mon, 2 May 2005 20:56:28 +0300:

>I installed a new font (Gentium, TrueType). 
>Everything went relatively smoothly except
>for one thing: When I type -- I really get
>two hyphens instead of the expected en
>dash.
>
>I have been able to work around this by
>using UTF regime and typing the en dash
>into the source file. However, it would
>be easier to use -- and ---. What should
>I do? (Yeah, I know, forget it and be
>happy that the UTF works :)

Hi Ville.

I'll assume you did it as you described on the Wiki (I made some
suggestions on where to move the page).

Try adding the --afmpl switch to your texfont command. It switches over
to the afmpl utility, which does better with preserving ligatures and kerns.
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