[OS X TeX] [OT] OS X 10.3.3 strange text (dash) behavior

[Mark Moll]

I was too quick with my reply. You don't need to disable fonts in 
FontBook. In the font panel (command-T in TextEdit), select 
"Typography..." from the menu in the left bottom of the window, uncheck 
"hyphens to em dash" and "hyphen to en dash" in "Typographic Extras".

On Apr 18, 2004, at 17:32, Mark Moll wrote:
> It appears to be a feature of the Helvetica font. To be precise, 
> "/System Folder/Fonts/Helvetica". The Helvetica font in 
> "/System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.dfont" does not have this feature. 
> You can disable the first one and enable the second with FontBook.app.
>
> On Apr 18, 2004, at 15:50, Fredrik Wallenberg wrote:
>> Has anyone else had problems with several applications having "smart 
>> features" when it comes to dashes. I see it in Mail, TexShop, 
>> OmniOutliner and TextEdit, so I assume it is a system wide "feature". 
>> There are two features... two repeated dashes gets converted to an 
>> em-dash. A single dash is left alone (surrounded by space) is 
>> converted to an en-dash.
>>
>> To understand what I'm staying, just open one of the apps above and 
>> type the following (without the '):
>>
>> This is an '-' en-dash ( - )
>> This is an '-''-' em-dash (--)
>>
>> While this would be wonderful behavior if I was using WYSIWYG editing 
>> it is not very helpful for me. How do I get rid of it?
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> Mark
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