From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25592 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Problem with German quotes and kerning Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:51:56 +0100 Message-ID: <43D9DF2C.8060401@elvenkind.com> References: <1BFDD604-4DEB-41EE-8B78-61A4811B8160@uni-bonn.de> <6faad9f00601250445r10e89c52x4401f0017dfffde2@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00601261653o214ea426pa4f3110f71200362@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138352041 27849 80.91.229.2 (27 Jan 2006 08:54:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:54:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jan 27 09:53:56 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2PMb-0002Pp-Gc for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:53:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274FD127F2; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:53:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26131-01; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:53:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D21127F1; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:52:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21985127F1 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:51:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25747-05-3 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:51:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from glenfiddich.elvenkind.com (elvenknd.xs4all.nl [213.84.171.68]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DBEB1279D for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:51:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by glenfiddich.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0D6218349 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:51:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from glenfiddich.elvenkind.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (glenfiddich.elvenkind.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26667-02 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:51:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.10.0.6] (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by glenfiddich.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A424C15EC8 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:51:56 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-7.1.20060mdk (X11/20050322) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00601261653o214ea426pa4f3110f71200362@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at elvenkind.net X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:25592 Archived-At: Well, if there was correct kerning in the font, then ConTeXt could at least attempt to do the right thing. As is, all efforts in this area are wasted because not even the font itself is right. Until that is fixed, there is no gain to be had from fixing the current status quo (the font should also have a kern between \quotesinglebase and itself, btw) Cheers, Taco