Re: semi-smart quotes in verbatim text?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

cormullion@mac.com wrote:
> On 2007-01-03, at 22:08.0, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> cormullion@mac.com wrote:
>>> This is puzzling me. If i type this in a text editor:
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>> These are 'quotes'.
>>> \starttyping
>>> let a = 'quoted string'
>>> \stoptyping
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>> I'm using dumb quotes (hex 27). ConText renders this as this:
>>>
>>> These are �quotes�.
>>> let a = �quoted string�
>>>
>>> ie the quotes have been educated - although only half-educated, since
>>> the opening one should be an opening one, if you see what I mean. But
>>> I really don't want characters in the verbatim (typing) section to
>>> change...because when you copy them from the PDF into an editor, the
>>> code listings don't work!
>>>
>>> There must be some kind of switch somewhere that stops ConteXt
>>> changing them?
>>>
>>>
>> context does nothing with the quotes, its the font
>
> Thanks, Hans.
>
> I'm a bit confused though: in the verbatim sections I want the 
> vertical typewriter quote 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe_%28mark%29#Computers_and_Unicode> 
> rather than any '6' or '9' style quotation mark apostrophe. I can see 
> the difference in most of the fonts I have here. In Courier, for 
> example, the difference is about 25 degrees of slope, and the inclined 
> quotation mark is lower down too.
>
> So perhaps I should rephrase my question: how can I keep the vertical 
> ' that I type into typing sections without it getting converted to a 
> curvy quote ’...?
non-trivial (we must make the ' always active then) ; in luatex we can 
preprocess verbatim lines, and/or remap characters so remind me in half 
a year

(we can make a mkiv wish list)

Hans

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