[NTG-context] Old-Style numerals command (\os) breaks conversion of hyphens to dashes
Art Chimes
artsonline at gmail.com
Sun Sep 20 23:14:52 CEST 2020
I have a fairly large document, 50-60 pp, with lots of numerals,
including hundreds of dates. I wanted to see how it would look with
old-style numbers and I assumed I could bracket the whole text section
of the document within braces and apply the \os command. I didn't turn
out as I expected, however. It did convert the numbers to old-style
digits. But it also unexpectedly changed the em and en dashes back to
hyphens, as they were entered in the source .tex document.
MWE follows below.
I could possibly do a search-and-replace but I am hoping there is a
simpler way to do it.. I am using Libertinus Serif (which does support
old style numerals) and columns, if that matters. Thank you.
\starttext
First two examples: Brackets surround text including digits, grouped
hyphens are {\emph not} converted to en and em dashes.
{\os
Ford--Chevy 12345
Chrysler---Plymouth 67890
}
\blank[line]
Next two examples: Brackets surround just the digits, the grouped
hypehns {\emph are} correctly converted to en and em dashes
Honda--Toyota {\os 12345}
Renault---Volkswagen {\os 67890}
\stoptext
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