Re: TeX ligatures in XeTeX/LuaTeX: ``who needs them''?

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

Hello Aditya,

thanks a lot for your opinion :)

On Dec 8, 2007 11:26 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> In some old documents. In newer documents I use \quote and \quotation.
> Then there are documents that need to move back and forth between latex
> and context but for them I can easily define appropriate macros in latex.

To be honest: I never had the slightest idea how to get proper
(Slovenian, "lower nine double quote") quotation marks in LaTeX (or
what's the suggested way to do it :). That's why I now use
\def\quotation#1{...} in LaTeX as well (in case I need to fix other
people's stuff).

> > Some ligatures are handy indeed:
> >  -- -> endash
> >  --- -> emdash
>
> I use them all the time. Even though the utf encoded values can work here,
> my editor (vim) using fixed width fonts, so it is easy to miss the
> difference between hypehn, endash, and emdash (in the markup). So, I would
> prefer them to be present.
>
> >  ' -> right single quote (I'm, isn't etc.)
>
> I can automate the conversion of ' to the corresponding utf character
> inside vim, so this is not really essential. However, IMO this should not
> change.

Sure. Those three replacements/ligatures were not under a question.
They should stay, IMO.

Mojca
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