From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Toft To: Sebastian Rahtz Cc: , Subject: Re: -- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 14:02:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <14998.58271.566093.281098@spqr2.oucs.ox.ac.uk> X-SW-Source: 2001-q1/msg00039.html On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > Norman Walsh writes: > > | However PS/PDF sees two consequtive minus-signs as a > > | long minus, i.e. > > | > > | d-x-x-x DIR1 > > | dr-xr-xr-x DIR2 > > | > > | It really looks stupid for directory-listings- can I > > | use a trick to get out of this situation - or trick > > | pdfjadetex to not combine two minus-signs? > > > > Are you using a recent pdfjadetex? I thought Sebastian fixed this > > one long ago? > > And I thought it was fixed in Jade itself... its essential insoluble > in jadetex, as the -- translation to - is the font metrics. Then the "-" -> "‐" is the way to proceed - only translated within -tags. Have to make a Perl-hack for this :-) -- Peter Toft, Ph.D. [pto@sslug.dk] http://www.sslug.dk/~pto "I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems." -- Linus Torvalds