Re: Why does the oldstyle numerals switch, \os, also switch off m-dashes?

[Pavneet Arora <pavneet_arora@waroc.com>]

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Okay another anomaly:  I used the example in the FAQs to try to set the feature 
across the entire document, which is really what I want.

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/FAQ#How_can_I_get_the_.E2.80.9Coldstyle_numbers.E2.80.9D_.28text_figures.29_in_a_document.3F

In a manuscript length project, I wouldn't want to get {\os } for each local 
instance.  Now, what I have noticed was that the small caps switch, \sc, seems 
to disable old-style numerals.  Is this a typographic convention, i.e., that in 
a run of small caps one should not revert to old-style numerals?  Is there a way 
of avoiding this assumption for a larger project?  I sometimes have text set in 
small caps that as part of a project ID would have some numbers in it.  In that 
case, I would like the old-style numerals to be used.

I again enclose a small example with output.

advTHANKSance.

On 11-11-30 01:30 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 30.11.2011 um 02:19 schrieb Pavneet Arora:
>
>> I enclose a minimal example as well as the output.  It would seem that the \os causes the m-dash to come out as three hyphens.  Is this the expected behavior?
>
> Write {\os 123…}, context use a special fontfeature set (with the name “just-os”) for old style figure where where kerning, text ligatures etc. are disabled.
>
> Wolfgang

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\definefontfeature[default][default][onum=yes]

\setupbodyfont[schola]

\starttext
1234567890 A Pause---between yes and no.

{\sc 1234567890 A Pause---between yes and no.} 0987654321

\stoptext


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