Getting a barred l for all the wrong reasons
Greetings, hopefully this is a real quickie. I'm using XeConTeXt, regime UTF, language en, hoefler encoding uc & receiving a barred l for any instance of this: l/ Which makes it tough to have pairs like centripetal/centrifugal. :) Any clues? Kind regards, David
dw@trichotomic.net said this at Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:47:28 -0800:
Greetings, hopefully this is a real quickie.
I'm using XeConTeXt, regime UTF, language en, hoefler encoding uc & receiving a barred l for any instance of this:
Hello David, Although you can use the utf regime with XeConTeXt, you are often better off not using it. (It depends on which
l/
Yeah, this was a thread on the XeTeX list. Apparently it's an Apple- created ligature. I think it shows up with o-slash as well. Hoefler text, right? workaround 1) use a different font. :P workaround 2) insert something that would interrupt the ligature being formed, like centripital\hbox{}/centrifugal
Which makes it tough to have pairs like centripetal/centrifugal. :)
potential solution 3) use the much more ConTeXt-like code: centripetal|/ |centrifugal. Hope one of those is of some help... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Adam Lindsay said this at Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:57 +0000:
Although you can use the utf regime with XeConTeXt, you are often better off not using it. (It depends on which
[oops, sent too soon...] Using the UTF regime with XeConTeXt makes you reliant on the characters defined in enco-uc/unic-0xx. Not using the UTF regime means that XeConTeXt passes the unicode directly to Apple's font engine, so you then rely on the characters defined in the font. It's a tricky trade-off in some cases, but most of the time, don't bother with \enableregime[utf] with XeConTeXt. adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Hi Adam, Yes, the Hoefler text…although not by my choosing ;) The centripetal|/|centriputal "trick" did the trick. Thanks again, David On Mar 20, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Adam Lindsay wrote:
dw@trichotomic.net said this at Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:47:28 -0800:
Greetings, hopefully this is a real quickie.
I'm using XeConTeXt, regime UTF, language en, hoefler encoding uc & receiving a barred l for any instance of this:
Hello David,
Although you can use the utf regime with XeConTeXt, you are often better off not using it. (It depends on which
l/
Yeah, this was a thread on the XeTeX list. Apparently it's an Apple- created ligature. I think it shows up with o-slash as well. Hoefler text, right?
workaround 1) use a different font. :P workaround 2) insert something that would interrupt the ligature being formed, like centripital\hbox{}/centrifugal
Which makes it tough to have pairs like centripetal/centrifugal. :)
potential solution 3) use the much more ConTeXt-like code: centripetal|/ |centrifugal.
Hope one of those is of some help...
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