From: dw@trichotomic.net
Subject: Re: Getting a barred l for all the wrong reasons
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:47:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <79bb8689ff2b29684be1324baae0c0a3@trichotomic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050321000057.29202@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Hi Adam,
Yes, the Hoefler text…although not by my choosing ;)
The centripetal|/|centriputal "trick" did the trick. Thanks again,
David
On Mar 20, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Adam Lindsay wrote:
> dw@trichotomic.net said this at Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:47:28 -0800:
>
>> Greetings, hopefully this is a real quickie.
>>
>> I'm using XeConTeXt, regime UTF, language en, hoefler encoding uc &
>> receiving a barred l for any instance of this:
>
> Hello David,
>
> Although you can use the utf regime with XeConTeXt, you are often
> better
> off not using it. (It depends on which
>
>> l/
>
> Yeah, this was a thread on the XeTeX list. Apparently it's an Apple-
> created ligature. I think it shows up with o-slash as well. Hoefler
> text,
> right?
>
> workaround 1) use a different font. :P
> workaround 2) insert something that would interrupt the ligature being
> formed, like centripital\hbox{}/centrifugal
>
>> Which makes it tough to have pairs like centripetal/centrifugal. :)
>
> potential solution 3) use the much more ConTeXt-like code:
> centripetal|/
> |centrifugal.
>
> Hope one of those is of some help...
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2005-03-20 18:47 dw
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