From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Em dash using Hoefler
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:16:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52135E04.10900@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D0AABADF-6C7C-45B5-8B0D-480D7C36FCE9@cam.ac.uk>
On 8/20/2013 2:07 PM, Martin Moncrieffe wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> On 20 Aug 2013, at 13:00, Matt Gushee <matt@gushee.net
> <mailto:matt@gushee.net>> wrote:
>
>> I don't think it's the font. I have been trying to produce an em dash
>> using the latest stable release from contextgarden.net
>> <http://contextgarden.net/>, with a couple
>> of different fonts--Alegreya, which is a free OpenType font, Latin
>> Modern, and one other that I don't remember. In my case, regardless of
>> the font, \emdash works but --- does not.
>
> Thanks! I can confirm that \emdash works perfectly with the minimal
> example I posted.
\startlines
first: –\space —
second: --\space ---
third: \endash \space \emdash
\stoplines
-- and --- are pseudo ligatures that use the tlig feature which is added
to each font automatically but depends to some extent to how the font
has glyphs defined
anyway, using --- is not something recommended
Hans
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-20 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-19 10:20 Martin Moncrieffe
2013-08-20 8:33 ` Marco Patzer
2013-08-20 9:52 ` Marco Patzer
2013-08-20 11:02 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-08-20 12:00 ` Hans Hagen
2013-08-20 12:25 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-08-20 11:10 ` Martin Moncrieffe
2013-08-20 11:51 ` Marco Patzer
2013-08-20 12:00 ` Matt Gushee
2013-08-20 12:07 ` Martin Moncrieffe
2013-08-20 12:16 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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