Re: Re: lowerleftdoubleninequote

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:27 PM 2/10/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>>>'lowerleftdoubleninequote' in german seems to be an double
>>>lowerleftninequote,
>>>whereas 'upperrightdoublesixquote' seems to be the ligature.
>>actually 'lowerleftdoubleninequote' are two "," without any
>>kerning. You can add the kerning by:
>>\definecharacter quotedblbase     {,\kern -.1em,}
>>
>>Hans: is there any way to make this default when using cmr?
>
>Worse: With some fonts two different commas are used (I guess one from 
>math mode);
>in my opinion we shouldn't make some kerning default, but using the right 
>glyphs!
>
>Please, Hans!

another solution is to make a specific font handler (like the hanging one) 
for a class of fonts like cmr, in that case you can link such a handler to 
for instance a cmr10 font (see hand-*)

Hans
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