* no en dash with otf fonts
@ 2008-11-14 5:04 Yi Zhang
2008-11-14 7:22 ` luigi scarso
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From: Yi Zhang @ 2008-11-14 5:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,
I'm using some otf fonts but '--' does not produce the en dash. How
can I get over this problem? Thanks,
--
Yi
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* Re: no en dash with otf fonts
2008-11-14 5:04 no en dash with otf fonts Yi Zhang
@ 2008-11-14 7:22 ` luigi scarso
2008-11-14 8:28 ` Hans Hagen
2008-11-14 7:23 ` Yanrui Li
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From: luigi scarso @ 2008-11-14 7:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Yi Zhang <yizhang84@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using some otf fonts but '--' does not produce the en dash. How
> can I get over this problem? Thanks,
>
>
what fonts ?
--
luigi
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* Re: no en dash with otf fonts
2008-11-14 5:04 no en dash with otf fonts Yi Zhang
2008-11-14 7:22 ` luigi scarso
@ 2008-11-14 7:23 ` Yanrui Li
2008-11-14 7:37 ` Marcin Borkowski
2008-11-14 7:48 ` Lutz Haseloff
2008-11-14 16:08 ` Aditya Mahajan
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From: Yanrui Li @ 2008-11-14 7:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
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2008/11/14 Yi Zhang <yizhang84@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using some otf fonts but '--' does not produce the en dash. How
> can I get over this problem? Thanks,
Try to use `\emdash' instead of it.
--
Best wishes,
Li Yanrui
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* Re: no en dash with otf fonts
2008-11-14 7:23 ` Yanrui Li
@ 2008-11-14 7:37 ` Marcin Borkowski
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From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2008-11-14 7:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Dnia Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 03:23:36PM +0800, Yanrui Li napisał(a):
> 2008/11/14 Yi Zhang <yizhang84@gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using some otf fonts but '--' does not produce the en dash. How
> > can I get over this problem? Thanks,
>
>
> Try to use `\emdash' instead of it.
Or "\endash".
>
> --
> Best wishes,
> Li Yanrui
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* Re: no en dash with otf fonts
2008-11-14 5:04 no en dash with otf fonts Yi Zhang
2008-11-14 7:22 ` luigi scarso
2008-11-14 7:23 ` Yanrui Li
@ 2008-11-14 7:48 ` Lutz Haseloff
2008-11-14 16:08 ` Aditya Mahajan
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From: Lutz Haseloff @ 2008-11-14 7:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
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nihao Yi,
you can enable all TeX ligatures as a fontfeature:
(minimat example)
\definefontfeature[lig][tlig=yes]
\font\nolig=Tallys at 12pt
\font\lig=Tallys*lig at 12pt
\starttext
\nolig - -- ---
\lig - -- ---
\stoptext
Greetings Lutz
2008/11/14 Yi Zhang <yizhang84@gmail.com>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using some otf fonts but '--' does not produce the en dash. How
> can I get over this problem? Thanks,
>
> --
> Yi
>
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* Re: no en dash with otf fonts
2008-11-14 7:22 ` luigi scarso
@ 2008-11-14 8:28 ` Hans Hagen
2008-11-14 16:10 ` Yi Zhang
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2008-11-14 8:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
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luigi scarso wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Yi Zhang <yizhang84@gmail.com
> <mailto:yizhang84@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using some otf fonts but '--' does not produce the en dash. How
> can I get over this problem? Thanks,
>
>
> what fonts ?
did you specify tlig=yes ?
(btw, there are fonts with multiple dashes and hyphens (multiple unicode
points for the same glyph) and to some extend - + - with - being one or
the other works ok)
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* Re: no en dash with otf fonts
2008-11-14 5:04 no en dash with otf fonts Yi Zhang
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2008-11-14 7:48 ` Lutz Haseloff
@ 2008-11-14 16:08 ` Aditya Mahajan
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From: Aditya Mahajan @ 2008-11-14 16:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Yi Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using some otf fonts but '--' does not produce the en dash. How
> can I get over this problem? Thanks,
Do you have feature=default in your typescripts?
Aditya
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* Re: no en dash with otf fonts
2008-11-14 8:28 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2008-11-14 16:10 ` Yi Zhang
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From: Yi Zhang @ 2008-11-14 16:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:28 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> luigi scarso wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Yi Zhang <yizhang84@gmail.com
>> <mailto:yizhang84@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using some otf fonts but '--' does not produce the en dash. How
>> can I get over this problem? Thanks,
>>
>>
>> what fonts ?
>
> did you specify tlig=yes ?
>
> (btw, there are fonts with multiple dashes and hyphens (multiple unicode
> points for the same glyph) and to some extend - + - with - being one or
> the other works ok)
>
Hi all,
tlig works! Thanks so much for all the replies!
--
Yi
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