Thank you Mojca for this quick reply! I didn't expect one right away, so I'm glad I'm not the only one not wanting to leave ConTeXt aside even during the weekend. ;-) So tlig it is.
Thanks again! Jeff On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 17:56, Mojca Miklavec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Jeff Smith wrote: >> >> \definefontfeature[bodyfeatures][method=node,script=latn,language=dflt,liga=yes,onum=yes,kern=yes,trep=yes,dlig=yes] >> >> I get the onum and dlig working with this, but, like I said, the trep >> doesn't work. If I am not mistaken, it's this feature that makes the >> apostrophe look like the comma. Am I right? > > Short answer: tlig, not trep. > > Long answer: > > See the folder fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping. > > Hans invented tlig and trep as a short word for tex ligatures and tex > replacements. That's still a bit unstable area of ConTeXt, but at the > beginning it indeed included all the replacements and all the > ligatures of Knuthian TeX. But that was too much for my taste (many > useless conversions like `?, `! and all the quotation marks, as well > as some really nasty ones as a side effect: it kept converting grave > accent into quotation mark for example). > > With some consensus we decided to keep only three of them: endash, > emdash and apostrophe. In LuaTeX these might still be split (tlig for > endash and emdash and trep for apostrophe). In XeTeX it seemed to much > overhaul to split three replacements into (three :) files, so I made > only a single one: tlig.[map|tec] > > You can use it as "mapping=tlig" in plain XeTeX. What ConTeXt does is > a conversion from "tlig=yes" into "mapping=tlig". trep used to map to > tex-text (so did tlig) a while ago, now I guess that it doesn't do > anything at all. > > I find it a bit unlucky situation that the behaviour is a bit > different, but introducing a new file trep.map with only a single > replacement would be even more weird & confusing to me. > > Mojca > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
