On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Karljurgen Feuerherm <kfeuerh...@wlu.ca> wrote: > Thanks for this. Two notes: > >>Re-reading it, it's not "all ligatures" that are gone with > "Unicode-compliant fonts", but it spoke about the em- and en-dashes and > double quotes. So on these ones, I plead guilty. > > Alright. Not a big deal, it seems to me. Unless XeTeX has changed since I last used it, traditional TeX ligatures ARE still there.if you load the fonts properly. I always used tradition TeX punctuation pseudo-ligatures when I used XeTeX because, unlike accents which are easy to type and not used very frequently, dashes and quotation marks and frequently used and hard to type. Thus shortcuts are welcome.
Mike
