From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] deroff, pic
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:06:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b3d76ef9ec29ff7fc91e285a241bc21@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd6fe68a0810231041k355f2574kc0ae15a41b56e0a@mail.gmail.com>
> It might also be worth pointing out that troff does just fine with `` and ''
> as curly quotes, so there's not a lot of need to use the Unicode ones.
> In fact, in the default fonts I find that the Unicode ones don't typeset
> particularly well -- they are too compressed.
>
> So a more complete solution is just not to use them.
however, that's not a solution for documents which have used them.
and in theory, “ and ” have been specially crafted by the font designer,
taking into consideration all those fine details that require fonts to
be hand-crafted and not built by computers. (knuth's cmrm font has
” at 042 and “ at 0134, the texbook, appendix f, p. 427.)
wouldn't the best fix for poorly designed fonts be ... a better font?
at least in theory.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-23 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-23 2:36 Pietro Gagliardi
2008-10-23 11:23 ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-23 17:41 ` Russ Cox
2008-10-23 21:06 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2008-10-23 14:39 ` cej
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