From: john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: texnansi encoding.
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 13:16:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130914131645.70143e77@localb.wexfordpress.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F85C0D6-E6E5-4696-9056-F944C6E110AF@gmail.com>
On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:42:42 +0200
Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Am 14.09.2013 um 15:34 schrieb john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>:
>
> > Excellent! Now in MKIV how would I encode an opening quote mark
> > American style? In previous TeX programs it was always ``. The MKIV
> > substitute \quotation{foo}
> > is not practical for my application, where the raw input code
> > may use the ditto mark " for both opening and closing quotes. I am
> > looking for something in MKIV equivalent to \char92 in plain TeX. On
> > the unicode table I find the hex value 008013 but I don't know how
> > to plug that in to a macro that redefines the first occurrence of "
> > to be that character, and the second occurrence to be hex 000814
> > etc. I can write the macro, I just need the expression equivalent
> > to \char that gives me such characters in MKIV.
>
> Are you sure these are the correct values?
>
> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/8013/index.htm
>
>
> What’s wrong with \char?
>
> \starttext
>
> \char"201C TEXT\char"201D
>
> \utfchar{"201C}TEXT\utfchar{"201D}
>
> \fontchar{quotedblleft}TEXT\fontchar{quotedblright}
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
Well you answered my question. The chart I read for unicode characters
gave the values I quoted. I guess I was reading the wrong chart. What
chart do you use?
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-12 20:05 john Culleton
2013-09-13 0:41 ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-14 13:34 ` john Culleton
2013-09-14 15:42 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-14 17:16 ` john Culleton [this message]
2013-09-14 18:06 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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