Am Thu, 27 Jun 2019 23:03:09 +0000 schrieb Ross Moore: >> there is probably something wrong with XeLaTeX, but I cannot find what. > > The difference between xetex and xelatex is the font: > > I’m sorry but I don’t understand this as an answer.
It wasn't meant as an answer. I only explained why you get different results with plain and latex: because they use different default fonts. > Put another way, the result of the test should not depend upon the initial > use of \kern2019sp at all. > However, if it is commented-out, then XeTeX does give n , so the y is > *not* coming from the letter A . xetex has a different typesetting engine: it doesn't handle chars but words as units. See page 31 here http://xml.web.cern.ch/XML/lgc2/xetexmain.pdf. So I'm not really surprised that you get the y, I was more suprised that it doesn't happen with legacy fonts - there it seem to switch back to the "handle characters" mode. -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
