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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
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Subject: Re: String single quote in \tt
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:56:53 +0200
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Hans Hagen wrote:
> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> 
>> Unless I misunderstood noligature, this does not work.
>>
>> \pdfnoligatures\tentt
>> \tt a = 'string' ;
>> \bye
>>
>> Still gives me rightquote.
>>   
> we need to ask taco ... he has to run your snippet in his mind/memory

The single straight quote in 'Typewriter Text' encoding is \char 13,
the directional one is in the ' slot (no, i do not know why)

Something rude like

   \catcode`'=\active \def'{\char13 }
   \tt a = 'string' ;

works in this example, but may not be usable in practise.

Cheers, Taco