Hello everyone! This might be a silly question, but please be gentle. I honestly tried to find and answer and failed.
I’m writing a document using XeTeX (mainly for its ease of accessing TTF fonts) and with the package xunicode to allow me to type Unicode characters easily—for several reasons it’s considerably more convenient for me to have things like curly quotes and the various dashes typed directly rather than as \commands. However, I’m not satisfied with the way em-dashes behave in this setup. I’d like to define a macro that does what I want (e.g. control spacing and line breaking around the dash), but I want to call by just typing an em-dash, i.e. just “—” instead of “\dash”. I anticipate the problem of having to actually generate the em-dash character instead of recursively calling the em-dash macro inside the macro, so please mention this if you have a solution for me, but I’m already stumped at the “how to call a macro ‘—’” part. (By the way, the *main* thing I want to do is allow line breaks after an em-dash, but not before; XeTeX doesn’t allow line breaks after an em-dash unless I specifically tell it to after each one. If there’s a significantly simpler way of achieving this please do let me know.) -- Bogdan Butnaru -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
