On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 10:24:12PM +0100, Petr Olsak wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > >On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:47:05PM +0100, Petr Olsak wrote: > >> > >>>>+tlig ... ligatures --- to emdash type > >>> > >>>This is an entirely different thing unrelated to the quoted paragraph. > >> > >>Where is documented this entirely different thing? This is basic > >>feature in TeX > > > >No it is a feature (or a hack) of Computer Modern fonts, TeX has no > >special handling of any kind for `, ', ``, '', --, ---, ?` or !`. > > This ``hack'' is used in mostly all TeX sources (--- gives emdash) > so no only Computer Modern fonts have these ligatures. > Mostly all tfm's includes this ``hack''. > The change from tfm's to direct OTF loading is no reason to name > this as ``hack''. Note that I am using this ``hack'' in my email for > quoting.
Which somehow makes it less hakish? The proper characters are ‘, ’, “, ”, –, —, just use them. It is 2012 after all, the 7-bit constrains that Knuth had 30 years ago no longer exist. If you insist on that “hack” (now that looks like a proper quote on my terminal not some ``hack'') you are on your own. Regards, Khaled
