On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 05:18:03PM +1030, Will Robertson wrote: > On 06/10/2011, at 5:10 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > Hans keeps those two IIRC because em and en dashes are hard to > > distinguish in monospaced fonts while editing, but even those are not > > supported now in luaotfload as I stated earlier. > > Frankly, this is crazy. LuaLaTeX *cannot* drop support entirely for > these features. There have been countless requests for how these > should be activated in the XeTeX mailing list, even after that feature > was implemented there.
If it is up to me I'll just tell them to use csquote or enter the Unicode quotes directly. But I've nothing against this feature at all, I just can't right that code myself. > Can't we just keep the old code lying around? Old code and new code are incompatible and not having two different OpenType engines is the very reason I'm hacking luaotfload. > Otherwise, XeTeX supports these features with its Unicode input > mapping feature -- what are the chances this could be written with a > Lua callback? It's a useful feature in itself, and the big reason > polyglossia is currently XeTeX-only. My wild guess is it shouldn't be too hard, but someone need to write that code :) Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian Arab
