From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/37848 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: TeX ligatures in XeTeX/LuaTeX: ``who needs them''? Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 00:10:34 +0100 Message-ID: <6faad9f00712081510v1b946b3ax387f4b7f9aa9e6e0@mail.gmail.com> References: <6faad9f00712081404h160264b4h1802480d1140f32a@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197161813 15663 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2007 00:56:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 00:56:53 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Dec 09 01:57:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J1ATZ-0004TF-QM for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:56:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9839E1FB22; Sun, 9 Dec 2007 00:41:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32520-04-7; Sun, 9 Dec 2007 00:39:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 333C71FCAF; Sun, 9 Dec 2007 00:20:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16DC1FC74 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2007 00:13:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07709-01 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2007 00:11:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.185]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA2EF1FC21 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2007 00:10:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k15so1044127rvb for ; Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:10:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.143.162.8 with SMTP id p8mr2591468wfo.1197155434046; Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:10:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.143.40.7 with HTTP; Sat, 8 Dec 2007 15:10:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:37848 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________