[XeTeX] Em-dash
Robert Zydenbos
indoxetex at go4more.de
Mon May 3 19:05:19 CEST 2010
This is the same kind of issue as one of the earlier ones: the whole
point of XeTeX is that one simply types what one wants into a Unicode
editor (i.e., if you want an em-dash, you simply type an em-dash, and
there is no need any more for TeX conventions like ---, \"a, etc. etc.).
Even if there is a way to work around the problem using a (new) TeX
command, it may be easier to just open a Unicode-sensitive editor and do
find-and-replace, turning all the --- into em-dashes. That is totally
unambiguous and should not lead to any problems, I think.
RZ
On 30.04.10 16:16, José Carlos Santos wrote:
> Hi all (yes, it's me again!):
>
> If I compile this file:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \pagestyle{empty}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{xunicode}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \begin{document}
> ---
> \end{document}
>
> with XeLaTeX, then I get a PDF file which contains a single character,
> namely an em-dash. But if I add, say, \setmainfont{Arial} before
> \begin{document}, then what I get is ---. Why? Do I have to use
> \textemdash instead?
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