Re: XeTeX old style numerals

["Jeff Smith" <ascarel@gmail.com>]

Thank you Mojca for this quick reply! I didn't expect one right away,
so I'm glad I'm not the only one not wanting to leave ConTeXt aside
even during the weekend. ;-) So tlig it is.

Thanks again!
Jeff

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 17:56, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Jeff Smith wrote:
>>
>> \definefontfeature[bodyfeatures][method=node,script=latn,language=dflt,liga=yes,onum=yes,kern=yes,trep=yes,dlig=yes]
>>
>> I get the onum and dlig working with this, but, like I said, the trep
>> doesn't work. If I am not mistaken, it's this feature that makes the
>> apostrophe look like the comma. Am I right?
>
> Short answer: tlig, not trep.
>
> Long answer:
>
> See the folder fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping.
>
> Hans invented tlig and trep as a short word for tex ligatures and tex
> replacements. That's still a bit unstable area of ConTeXt, but at the
> beginning it indeed included all the replacements and all the
> ligatures of Knuthian TeX. But that was too much for my taste (many
> useless conversions like `?, `! and all the quotation marks, as well
> as some really nasty ones as a side effect: it kept converting grave
> accent into quotation mark for example).
>
> With some consensus we decided to keep only three of them: endash,
> emdash and apostrophe. In LuaTeX these might still be split (tlig for
> endash and emdash and trep for apostrophe). In XeTeX it seemed to much
> overhaul to split three replacements into (three :) files, so I made
> only a single one: tlig.[map|tec]
>
> You can use it as "mapping=tlig" in plain XeTeX. What ConTeXt does is
> a conversion from "tlig=yes" into "mapping=tlig". trep used to map to
> tex-text (so did tlig) a while ago, now I guess that it doesn't do
> anything at all.
>
> I find it a bit unlucky situation that the behaviour is a bit
> different, but introducing a new file trep.map with only a single
> replacement would be even more weird & confusing to me.
>
> Mojca
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