Ville Voipio said this at Mon, 2 May 2005 20:56:28 +0300:

I installed a new font (Gentium, TrueType). Everything went relatively smoothly except for one thing: When I type -- I really get two hyphens instead of the expected en dash.

I have been able to work around this by using UTF regime and typing the en dash into the source file. However, it would be easier to use -- and ---. What should I do? (Yeah, I know, forget it and be happy that the UTF works :)

Hi Ville. I'll assume you did it as you described on the Wiki (I made some suggestions on where to move the page). Try adding the --afmpl switch to your texfont command. It switches over to the afmpl utility, which does better with preserving ligatures and kerns. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-