Re: [XeTeX] Em-dash

[José Carlos Santos]

On 30-04-2010 15:29, Alan Munn wrote:

If I compile this file:

\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\begin{document}
---
\end{document}

with XeLaTeX, then I get a PDF file which contains a single character,
namely an em-dash. But if I add, say, \setmainfont{Arial} before
\begin{document}, then what I get is ---. Why? Do I have to use
\textemdash instead?

No. When you specify the main font, just specify the Mapping:

\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Arial}

This tells xelatex to convert the latex conventions (such as --- ) (and
other things) to the proper unicode versions.

Thanks a lot.

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos


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