From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: news3@nililand.de, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: +tlig fails sometimes in mkiv
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:14:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D791518.7080607@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1i9fgp1u4h7hy.dlg@nililand.de>
On 5-3-2011 5:24, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
>
> On c.t.t. there was a discussion about the TeX-ligatures -- and ---
> for endash and emdash. It seems that the luaotfload/context code
> fails for some font/mode combination: For some fonts +tlig works
> with both modes, some works only with mode=base, and there was also
> a report of font which doesn't work at all (Frutiger LT 55 Roman).
>
> E.g. on my PC +tlig works for Arial (c:/windows/fonts/Arial.ttf)
> tested with a current context minimals only with mode=base.
>
> \font\test="Arial:mode=node;+tlig"
>
> \font\testb="Arial:mode=base;+tlig"
>
> \starttext
>
> \test -- --- abc %fails
>
> \testb -- --- abc %works
>
> \stoptext \bye
this is a side effect of there being two hyphens, think of:
\char 45\char 45
\char173\char173
\char173\char 45
\char 45\char173
\char 45\char 45\char 45
\char173\char173\char173
\char173\char 45\char 45
\char 45\char173\char173
fixed in next beta
Hans
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-05 16:24 Ulrike Fischer
2011-03-05 18:50 ` Arabic typesetting with ConTeXt: 'hello world' R. Ermers, Midden Oosten Perspectief
2011-03-10 18:14 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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