From: john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: open quotation not working
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:57:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131021135722.620297c1@localb.wexfordpress.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BBB0BA6-F9BA-4CB6-91BF-8220F0324AA1@gmail.com>
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 11:30:54 +0200
Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Am 13.10.2013 um 06:09 schrieb Ciro A. Soto <ciro@kavyata.com>:
>
> > sorry, I just saw an old chain of messages about this question... I
> > fixed it with the translation module. \usemodule[translate]
> > \translateinput[``][“]
> > \enableinputtranslation
>
> Better use real quotation marks “ and ” or \quotation{…}.
>
> Wolfgang
> ________________________________________________________________________
Why is it better? And why is it so difficult to just reinstall the
traditional TeX method of handling quotes? Even the MSWin version of
smart quotes using the " glyph would be a worthwhile simplification.
Not every change is an improvement, IMO.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-21 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-13 3:07 Ciro A. Soto
2013-10-13 4:09 ` Ciro A. Soto
2013-10-13 9:30 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-10-21 17:57 ` john Culleton [this message]
2013-10-21 19:23 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-10-21 19:55 ` Peter Münster
2013-10-21 23:43 ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-22 14:38 ` Mojca Miklavec
2013-10-22 21:00 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-10-13 9:02 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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