RE: Re: DAVENPORT: sgml2latex for docbook? (The DSSSList Digest V3 #171)

[MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx (Wroth, Mark)]

Another approach to this would be to turn off ligatures in the font in use;
TeX uses the ligature mechanism to turn "--" into an en-dash and "---" into
an em-dash.  Depending on what you're doing, you might also want to disable
the other ligatures.

Date: 20 Sep 1999 10:37:36 -0400
From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: DAVENPORT: sgml2latex for docbook?

Joerg Wittenberger <Joerg.Wittenberger@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> BTW: Another problem I have is with adjected -- characters.  People
> tend to use those with fixed font environments to make ascii art.
> Sure not desirable - what I have some thousend documents...  Any way
> to fix that, even if it was a hack?

A Debian user noticed this also.

It seems that JadeTeX, or else the whole TeX backend, needs to replace
any inbound '--' pairs with '-{}-'.  See
<http://bugs.debian.org/45489>.

Sebastian, do you know the best way to go about fixing this?

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