[XeTeX] Em-dash

[Cyril Niklaus]

On 3 mai 10, at 10:26, David Purton wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Can someone test if the the below example works with the 12pt article
> option?
>
> i.e., \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>
> I'm just left with blankspaces for em and en dashes with 12pt and the
> default fonts.
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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{xltxtra} %loads xunicode and fontspec
\begin{document}
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\end{document}
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Both with and without the [12pt] work fine here, I get the expected em  
dash.

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entering extended mode
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LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,  
dumylang, noh
yphenation, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman-x-2008-06-18, ancientgreek,  
ibycus, ar
abic, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech,  
danish, dutc
h, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, german,  
ngerman, mono
greek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, interlingua, irish,  
italian, la
tin, mongolian, mongolian2a, bokmal, nynorsk, polish, portuguese,  
romanian, rus
sian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, turkish,  
ukenglis
h, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xltxtra/xltxtra.sty
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(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
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(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1lmr.fd))
fontspec.cfg loaded.
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(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xunicode/xunicode.sty)
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etex-pkg/etex.sty)
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emdash.aux
) [1] (./emdash.aux) )
Output written on emdash.pdf (1 page).
Transcript written on emdash.log.