2012/9/4 Philip TAYLOR <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk>: > I am confused, Zdeněk : > > >>> Zdenek Wagner wrote: > > >> Not the font, only the language. > > > but in your earlier message you wrote "IMHO it should be a property of a > font, not of a typesetting system." > > So I am not at all clear what you are advocating : are you saying that > it should be > > (a) a static property of any font to be used exclusively for French > (b) a dynamic (user-selectable) property of any font to be used > non-exclusively for French > (c) a property of a "language", as defined by packages such as Babel > or Polyglossia, or > (d) something else ? > Language feature of a font.
> I pass over the discussion on active characters (because those problems > are well understood) and on LuaTeX (because I would like a solution > that can be used with XeTeX). > As Ulrike wrote, \XeTeXinterchartoks is a nice feature. It can solve various problems without having active characters. > ** Phil. -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex