2010/5/31, Vadim Radionov <vadim.radio...@gmail.com>: > Vladimir, > > You know, that Russian babel short-hands do slightly more than just insert a > glyph from the font: they adjust the spacing around the em-dash (and the > length of the dash, too), and allow hyphenation of adjacent words (in case > of hyphens). So even in the case of Unicode input we need some macros to do > this job.
Yes, this is the main reason. And they're easier to enter from the keyboard. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
