Am 06.04.24 um 11:43 schrieb madiazm.eo...@gmail.com:
Hi everyone,
I'm a bit puzzled because I usually don't get an em-dash when I type tree
hyphens. If I use the command \emdash, no problem but when I use the hyphens
some days it works... and somedays I see three small hyphens.
I tried it on overleaf and of ContextOnWeb with the same inconsistency. If I
create a new file it usually works right; but when I overwrite an existing file
subtituting a hyphen for three where the dash should be I sometimes get it
right and sometimes wrong.
It is not the pdf viewer since I get good or bad results in all, the overleaf
pdf preview tool, the context on web preview tool and the mozilla integrated
pdf viewer.
Am I missing something on the use of this ligature? (the question is just out of
curiosity, since I plan to create a command that adds a hairspace after or before the
dash, since I don't like it to stick to some letters like "o".
Generally, “we” try to reduce active characters as much as possible,
that’s why -- and --- usually /don’t/ produce en or em dashes. You can
activate these ligatures as a font feature though (AFAIR "latexhyphens",
can’t find it…).
Some editors and some fonts do automatical replacements.
Hraban
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