[XeTeX] xunicode.sty bug

[William Adams]

On Jul 18, 2006, at 6:36 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> Having a visible glyph for U+00AD in a font may be useful if text is
> displayed by a "dumb" system that does not handle its Unicode
> semantics. But in this case, it may be a bad idea for the glyph to
> look like a "normal" hyphen, as this could mislead people into using
> it thinking that it will always be a visible character. Using a
> specially-marked glyph (e.g., with dashed box around) might be a
> better choice. (This can also be used by editors that want to support
> a "show invisibles" mode.)

I've always thought that there needed to be a pair of Unicode points,  
one of which had a visible representation as a hyphen when it had  
been introduced at the discretion of the H&J system and which could  
(and should) disappear from the visual representation if the text  
were re-flowed (but remain in the text against its being needed  
again) being replaced by the invisible equivalent.

Translation: I really resent how much of my life has been spent  
trying to figure out which hyphens stay and which should go in text  
being re-purposed from something other than a pristine and sensibly  
marked-up source.

William

-- 
William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications



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