Re: Visually replace one character by another one automatically

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Jeff Smith wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2007 3:18 AM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
>> This should happen automatically already. Context (well, TeX, really)
>> is even smarter than that: If you type 'hello', it will automatically
>> visualise that as 'hello'. If this does not happen, something is not
>> right with your input, and you'd better post a small example.
> 
> Indeed, your answer made me check back old documents I had printed.
> The comma apostrophe was there! When you don't think about those
> things, you never realize them...
> 
> So I checked back a bit, and what is wrong then is not my input per
> se, but my current document setup, which I don't know how to solve.
> 
> Two weeks ago, I asked about OpenType features. Mojca and Wolfgang
> thus gave examples of \definefontfeature. So, since I wanted to try
> out the historical ligatures in my font (dlig) alongside oldstyle
> nombers, I used the following, based on what I was told:
> 
> \definefontfeature
>  [myfeatures]
>  [method=node,script=latn,language=dflt,liga=yes,onum=yes,kern=yes,dlig=yes]
> 
> It turns out this is the culprit. When I comment that out, the comma
> apostrophes are back. :-)
> 
> This makes me very happy because after all I won't use the historical
> ligatures. Therefore, I can use the oldstyle feature set and
> everything works well.
> 
> That is not to say that wouldn't like to know how to solve what
> happened though. For the sake of it (and some eventual document's
> where this will be crucial), I would like to know what do I need to
> add to \definefontfeature for the apostrophe magic to work?

  tlig=yes trep=yes

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