Re: XeTeX 1.0 - request for comments

On Oct 19, 2005, at 2:21 PM, Florian Grammel wrote:

> Another wish would be a macro that gives replacement patterns for 
> ligatures like fi, fl,...(as long as the fonts don't include them) and 
> perhaps also for the common shorthands like -- --- `` ''. As for the 
> quotation marks it would really be very nice to be able to choose 
> which real marks they will be expanded to. (Or is this yet available 
> and I just don't know how to do it?)

That's what the ``mapping=tex-text'' option in a font declaration does.

William
(who will be trying to help out on the docs presently)

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