[XeTeX] Traditional TeX ligatures once again

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 28.06.2007 um 20:17 schrieb Jonathan Kew:

> Are there any more besides << and >> that are used in one or other  
> of the common font encodings?

Do you remember the Compose key of DEC VT-xyz terminals? Or the  
mode_switch in X11? The idea behind it is to compose a kind of  
complicated character from some basic characters on the keyboard. "y  
would produce ÿ, ^2 would give ² (and _3 I think ₃), O/ gives Ø,  
xx gives × and :- ÷? There are also codes for some Greek letters.

Would it make sense to create an Input Manager to be able to type  
these complicated non-keyboard characters without Character Palette?  
I presume there are a lot more for non-Latin keyboards.

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   Pete

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