XeLaTeX doesn't turn two hypens into an endash anymore

Asked Oct 06 '23 at 13:41

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I have been using XeLaTeX (TeX Live on Linux) for several years and two dashes have always been turned into an en-dash. For some time now (maybe since I installed TeX Live 2023) this doesn't happen anymore:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
%\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}   % does not work
%\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX}      % does not work
\setmainfont{STIXTwoText-Regular.otf}
\begin{document}
Two hyphens -- are not automatically replaced by an en-dash \textendash.
Three hyphens --- are not automatically replaced by an em-dash \textemdash.
\end{document}

Everything is fine with LuaLaTeX, but I'd rather use XeLaTeX :) Any suggestions?

asked Oct 06 '23 at 13:41

Sergio

It's everything working fine for me both in Xe and LuaLaTeX, can you update your TeX distributions – MadyYuvi Oct 06 '23 at 13:56
I believe to have seen a question like yours, which depended on the particular distribution on a particular operating system. What are yours? Look in the log file for tex-text: you should see some warning. – egreg Oct 06 '23 at 14:08
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see Suddenly `` and -- is not translated to curly quotes and en-dash – Udi Fogiel Oct 06 '23 at 14:14
@UdiFogiel Yes, that's the one I seemed to remember. – egreg Oct 06 '23 at 14:39
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@UdiFogiel Installing texlive-xetex (I'm using Manjaro) solved the problem. Thank you! – Sergio Oct 06 '23 at 14:45

XeLaTeX doesn't turn two hypens into an endash anymore

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