[XeTeX] typesetting hyphen in xelatex

[Herbert Schulz]

On Dec 19, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk> wrote:

> 
> 
> Herbert Schulz wrote:
> 
>> The more ``modern' way of doing this is to use the option Ligatures=TeX, e.g.,
>> 
>> \usepackage{fontspec}
>> \defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX}
> 
> Sadly that is not backwards-compatible : tried in Plain XeTeX,
> no ligatures are recognised :
> 
> 	\font \bodyfont = "Arial Unicode MS:Ligatures=TeX"
> 
> Even more disturbing, no diagnostic is issued.
> 
> ** Phil.


Howdy,

Hmmm... I thought the original poster was using xelatex?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)