Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@???> writes:
> Michael Smith wrote:
>
> >One problem I've noticed: If I have the string "--" in my FO
> >source, one of the dashes gets gobbled and only a single dash
> >shows up in output.
> >
> >
> >
> this is because most TeX fonts treat "--" as a ligature for an en-dash,
> and you cannot stop ligatures easily in the macros. I get around
> this by having locally-hacked TeX font metrics, but thats an extreme
> measure!
>
> the -- tends to occur in typewriter contexts; is it okay there?
I know what you mean by "typewriter contexts", but I don't know
what that means in XSL-FO...
But, regardless, before I applied that patch that Hans posted, it
wasn't OK anywhere in output from test docs I tried; it got
gobbled everywhere.
Anyway, I think the easy solution as far as the DocBook
stylesheets go is just to never generate "--" in FO output, but
always generate "--" instead. Because no cases that I know
of where anybody would want a break in the middle of "--".
--Mike
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