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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
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Subject: Re: \definetype breaks down ---
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:47:27 +0100
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Hans Hagen wrote:
> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> 
>> Hi Hans,
>>
>> I just noticed a bug with the type mechanism. It breaks down the 
>> kerning for ---. Minimal example:
>>
>> \definetype[typeTEX][option=tex]
>>
>> \starttext
>> \typeTEX|\example|. this---breaks---down.
>> \stoptext
>>
>> Any workarounds?
>>
>>   
> 
> taco, is \noligatures global? i.e. how do we turn on ligatures then?
> 

You can't, it is destructive. (I have told you it was a hack, yes?)

Taco