2007/12/9, Mojca Miklavec
On Dec 9, 2007 5:07 PM, Willi Egger wrote:
or even more weird ones: !` -> inverted exclam ?` -> inverted question
For Spanish this is definitevely necessary. Again if coded in UTF there is no problem.
Do Spansh users still key them in like that (apart from old TeX-ies who have never heard abot anything beyond \v, \", \')? I mean: would anyone miss those two ligatures? (I assume that people need to use inverted quotation marks in Word as well ...)
Ono problem is that that's a "well known" TeX behaviour though (documented in beginner's manual as well).
Some ligatures are handy indeed: -- -> endash --- -> emdash ' -> right single quote (I'm, isn't etc.)
Sure this is important, I suggest to add the horizontal ellipsis
\dots? But what if one decides to use, say, 10 dots in a row? That
\periods[10]
might lead to weird effects (non-evenly spaced dots). -- and --- have been well established, so one would be careful enough before writing "----------". And there's \dots, so that one could have been mapped to ellipsis if needed.
10 periods in the file should give 3 ellipsis and 1 single dot.
Thanks, Mojca
Wolfgang