Ulrike, On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 03:59:54PM +0100, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
Why should we setup defaults that breaks this input as soon as people try to convert a document to use xelatex or lualatex?
You write “we”, as if this had been a conscious decision by a group of people. But you must know, as well as I do, that no such thing ever happened. At the very best one single person made some half-hearted decision at some point, when developing the engine, the format, or the package.
Which user would say that it is an improvement that an input which previously gave an endash now prints --?
If you think you can speak on behalf of users, please go ahead. I’m the vice president of the TeX Users Group and wouldn’t ever presume to wager what users would say. Most of what we do is based on blind guesses.
Do you want to answer all the questions on tex.sx about how to activate the tlig again?
No. By the way I can’t, because I don’t answer these questions in the first place :-) Best, Arthur