From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19237 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dw@trichotomic.net Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Getting a barred l for all the wrong reasons Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:47:57 -0800 Message-ID: <79bb8689ff2b29684be1324baae0c0a3@trichotomic.net> References: <09a525c6953460354b0d56d2b2e72b12@trichotomic.net> <20050321000057.29202@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111369789 7647 80.91.229.2 (21 Mar 2005 01:49:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:49:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Mar 21 02:49:49 2005 Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDC36-0006Cd-2H for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:49:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F027F127C9; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:51:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02943-05; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:51:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B45128D7; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:48:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DDB6128D7 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:47:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02942-03 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:47:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from calmail-fe1.berkeley.edu (mailfarm.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.61.106]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE8B128AF for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:47:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [69.110.228.169] (account wooten@calmail.berkeley.edu HELO [10.0.1.201]) by calmail-fe1.berkeley.edu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.6) with ESMTP-TLS id 86236110 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:47:57 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20050321000057.29202@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-MailScanner-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-MailScanner-To: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:19237 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:19237 Hi Adam, Yes, the Hoefler text=85although 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=20 > 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=20 > 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:=20 > centripetal|/ > |centrifugal. > > Hope one of those is of some help...