[XeTeX] No ligatures, dashes and typographical quotes after changing font

[Alexander Schultheiß]

Hello Marcin,

Yes, I did try it but as suspected it requires XeLaTeX (at least XeTeX
tells me it found an undefined control sequence). Do you know where
the control sequence \defaultfontfeatures is defined? Maybe I can hack
my own.

Alex

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Marcin Grotomirski <grotos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Alexander,
> did you try this:
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> ?
> Marcin Grotomirski
>
> 2010/9/9 Alexander Schultheiß <aschulth at googlemail.com>:
>> After changing my main font in XeTeX I've lost all niceties of TeX,
>> like ligatures (fi, ffi), em/en dashes, typographical quotes &c. The
>> font decalrations are as follows:
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> \font\eighteenrm="[/path/to/fonts/myfontrm.ttf]:script=latn" at 18truept
>> \font\eighteensl="[/path/to/fonts/myfontsl.ttf]:script=latn" at 18truept
>> \font\eighteenit="[/path/to/fonts/myfontit.ttf]:script=latn" at 18truept
>> \font\eighteenbf="[/path/to/fonts/myfontbf.ttf]:script=latn" at 18truept
>> \font\eighteenbi="[/path/to/fonts/myfontbi.ttf]:script=latn" at 18truept
>> \font\eighteensc="[/path/to/fonts/myfontsc.ttf]:script=latn" at 18truept
>>
>> \font\forteenrm="[/path/to/fonts/myfontrm.ttf]:script=latn" at 14truept
>> \font\forteensl="[/path/to/fonts/myfontsl.ttf]:script=latn" at 14truept
>> \font\forteenit="[/path/to/fonts/myfontit.ttf]:script=latn" at 14truept
>> \font\forteenbf="[/path/to/fonts/myfontbf.ttf]:script=latn" at 14truept
>> \font\forteenbi="[/path/to/fonts/myfontbi.ttf]:script=latn" at 14truept
>> \font\forteensc="[/path/to/fonts/myfontsc.ttf]:script=latn" at 14truept
>>
>> \font\thirteenrm="[/path/to/fonts/myfontrm.ttf]:script=latn" at 13truept
>> \font\thirteensl="[/path/to/fonts/myfontsl.ttf]:script=latn" at 13truept
>> \font\thirteenit="[/path/to/fonts/myfontit.ttf]:script=latn" at 13truept
>> \font\thirteenbf="[/path/to/fonts/myfontbf.ttf]:script=latn" at 13truept
>> \font\thirteenbi="[/path/to/fonts/myfontbi.ttf]:script=latn" at 13truept
>> \font\thirteensc="[/path/to/fonts/myfontsc.ttf]:script=latn" at 13truept
>>
>> \font\twelverm="[/path/to/fonts/myfontrm.ttf]:script=latn" at 12truept
>> \font\twelvesl="[/path/to/fonts/myfontsl.ttf]:script=latn" at 12truept
>> \font\twelveit="[/path/to/fonts/myfontit.ttf]:script=latn" at 12truept
>> \font\twelvebf="[/path/to/fonts/myfontbf.ttf]:script=latn" at 12truept
>> \font\twelvebi="[/path/to/fonts/myfontbi.ttf]:script=latn" at 12truept
>> \font\twelvesc="[/path/to/fonts/myfontsc.ttf]:script=latn" at 12truept
>>
>> \font\tenrm="[/path/to/fonts/myfontrm.ttf]:script=latn" at 10truept
>> \font\tensl="[/path/to/fonts/myfontsl.ttf]:script=latn" at 10truept
>> \font\tenit="[/path/to/fonts/myfontit.ttf]:script=latn" at 10truept
>> \font\tenbf="[/path/to/fonts/myfontbf.ttf]:script=latn" at 10truept
>> \font\tenbi="[/path/to/fonts/myfontbi.ttf]:script=latn" at 10truept
>> \font\tensc="[/path/to/fonts/myfontsc.ttf]:script=latn" at 10truept
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> TeXDistro:     TeXLive 2009 (XeTeX)
>> OS:            Slackware 12.2
>>
>> What do I miss?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>> P.S. The font has ligatures as well as all dashes and quotes at their
>> respective unicode codepoints; at liest the rm version.
>>
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