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From: Johannes Werner <jowe3659@tiscali.de>
Subject: Re: \lowerleftdoubleninequote (German quotes)
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 00:16:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <427949CD.5050105@tiscali.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <427890E2.10103@online-resourcen.de>

i noticed that error too, but don't know a solution.
shorter commands for the same glyphs are \quotedblleft and \quotedblbase 
- first is ok, second not.
(tip: try \showcharacters if you are looking the most common symbols)

johannes


Frank Grieshaber wrote:

> Dear all,
> I want to use German double quotes for my text but noticed that the 
> beginning double quotation sign/glyph is somewhat corrupt: there is a 
> bigger distance between the two signs than is with the ending double 
> quote (which are typographically correct). To make this a bit clearer, 
> I have appended to this email an examle. If you look very carfully you 
> can see this effect already in the Context Manual, chapter 10.8 page 
> 198 (\lowerleftdoubleninequote).
>
> The Code of the appended pdf is the following:
>
> \mainlanguage    [de]        rules, quote signs etc.
>
> \starttext
> Dies ist ein \quotation{Test}.
> \stoptext
>
> Has anybody noticed this error, or does anybody know a solution?
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
>
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-04 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-04  9:07 Frank Grieshaber
2005-05-04 10:18 ` Adam Lindsay
2005-05-04 11:14 ` Patrick Gundlach
2005-05-04 22:16 ` Johannes Werner [this message]

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