From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <2b3d76ef9ec29ff7fc91e285a241bc21@quanstro.net> To: 9fans@9fans.net From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:06:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [9fans] deroff, pic Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2607878c-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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