Re: [NTG-context] no en dash with otf fonts

2008-11-14 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi scarso wrote:
 
 
 On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Yi Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [NTG-context] no en dash with otf fonts

2008-11-14 Thread Yi Zhang
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:28 AM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 luigi scarso wrote:


 On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Yi Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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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Re: [NTG-context] no en dash with otf fonts

2008-11-14 Thread Aditya Mahajan
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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[NTG-context] no en dash with otf fonts

2008-11-13 Thread Yi Zhang
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: [NTG-context] no en dash with otf fonts

2008-11-13 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Yi Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [NTG-context] no en dash with otf fonts

2008-11-13 Thread Yanrui Li
2008/11/14 Yi Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 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: [NTG-context] no en dash with otf fonts

2008-11-13 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 03:23:36PM +0800, Yanrui Li napisa#322;(a):
 2008/11/14 Yi Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
  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: [NTG-context] no en dash with otf fonts

2008-11-13 Thread Lutz Haseloff
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 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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