[NTG-context] inactive -- and ---

[Taco Hoekwater]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Hraban,
> 
> AFAIK, -- and --- aren't active, but they (should) produce ligatures,  
> so the problem is most probably at the level of the tfms you  produced. 
> How did you obtain them? By running texfont? Which encoding  are you using?

\defaultencoding expands to 'ec' these days (used to be 'texnansi').
Perhaps that is the problem?

Taco