On Friday 21 November 2008 11:11:39 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 21.11.2008 um 18:25 schrieb Bart C. Wise:
Fontforge shows no ligatures for Adobe Garamond; however, it does show ligatures for the Tallys fonts. So that probably explains why there are no ligatures.
However, the font has a lot of kerning pairs, but I don't seem to be able turn those on/off with the \definefontfeature directive as I could do in the Tallys font.
And back to the original problem, en dash, em dash, quotes that work in other fonts don't work here. I can use \emdash, \endash, \quotesingle, etc., but this creates more work when you get text from an author and is more prone to error.
So is this a font problem? Or is this something I'm doing wrong (and what)?
Give us more information, what format does your Garamond font has (type1, truetype or opentype). Have you tried to load the font without ConTeXts interface:
\font\garamond="AGaramond-Regular:mapping=tex-text"
\garamond fi ffi -- --- ``text'' fl
\bye
Can you try to test your typescript with MkIV if this makes a difference and finally, what is the output from "mtxrun --script fonts --list AGaramond* --info".
Wolfgang
The above code works, the -- and --- get translated to endash and emdash, the quotes look great. Still no ligatures, but it doesn't seem that the font has any. I have no MkIV setup, and I'm in the middle of a project, so now is not a good time to switch. Is there a convenient way to try on TeXLive2008 without changing my current setup? If so, I'll give it a whirl. $ mtxrun --script fonts --list AGaramond* --info MtxRun | error unable to identify cnf file MtxRun | error unable to identify cnf file MtxRun | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) MtxRun | unknown script: fonts Something wrong with my TeXLive2008 installation? Bart