Re: [NTG-context] inactive -- and ---

2005-11-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hraban,you can't read tfm, but have you tried converting them to pl? That's a format you can read... And you probably have a pair of vf and tfm files, so you could and should convert to vpl.BestThomasOn Nov 20, 2005, at 11:43 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:Thank you. I'm using ec, but tried also tex

Re: [NTG-context] inactive -- and ---

2005-11-20 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
AFAIK, -- and --- aren't active, but they (should) produce ligatures, so the problem is most probably at the level of the tfms you produced. How did you obtain them? By running texfont? Which encoding are you using? \defaultencoding expands to 'ec' these days (used to be 'texnansi'). Perh

Re: [NTG-context] inactive -- and ---

2005-11-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
I just looked into font conversion for another project. In EC.enc, you have this line: % LIGKERN hyphen hyphen =: endash ; endash hyphen =: emdash ; so fonts converted by texfont and using --enc=ec should have the dashes enabled automagically. The problem I had was with the f- ligatures, I

Re: [NTG-context] inactive -- and ---

2005-11-20 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hraban, AFAIK, -- and --- aren't active, but they (should) produce ligatures, so the problem is most probably at the level of the tfms you produced. How did you obtain them? By running texfont? Which encoding are you using? \defaultencoding expands to 'ec' these d

Re: [NTG-context] inactive -- and ---

2005-11-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hraban, AFAIK, -- and --- aren't active, but they (should) produce ligatures, so the problem is most probably at the level of the tfms you produced. How did you obtain them? By running texfont? Which encoding are you using? Thomas On Nov 20, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

[NTG-context] inactive -- and ---

2005-11-20 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
type-sil-gentium.tex Description: Binary data I'm just trying to modernize and enhance my old typescripts and reckognized that -- and --- become inactive (i.e. don't become endash and emdash, but stay dashes) with the SIL Gentium font (or at least with my typescript). How can that happen?