Subject: Re: (dsssl) Double-dash sign and TeX backend From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 12:45:59 +0100 |
David Carlisle writes: > Safer to use -\kern\z@ as {} doesn't normally supress ligatures > (although it will in this case as - isn't (normally) a letter. > > I thought jadetex had some code for this already, Sebastian? Only in recent openjade releases, I think. i fear many people do not use the current jade. I cannot trap this in jadetex itself > something like this in jadetex.cfg (untested) > > \let\origminus- > \catcode`\-\active > \AtBeginDocument{\def-{\origminus\kern\z@}} > \catcode`\-12\relax if it works in generality, I shall be more than slightly amazed.... > An alternative is to fix the problem at source, and generate a modified > set of tex font metrics which don't have the annoying -- ligaure. > (This is fairly easy, just run tfm to pl, edit the ligature table to > delete the offending line, and convert it back to a tfm) right. thats what I'd do if I had the problem. but it is a bit TeXnical... sebastian DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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