Re: Re: lowerleftdoubleninequote

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 11:53 PM 3/10/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> > >What ist the correlation between 'punctuation', 'alpha' and 'def'????
>
>???
>
> > hanging punctuation is the traditional simple model of - , ; : . and !
> > hanging into the margin; pdftex goes beyond that and let's you hang any
> > char into the margin, so this is why we speak of character protruding;
> >
> > fonthandling in context is currently used for hanging things but can be
> > used for anything font related; the alpha, def etc setups are more or
>less
> > derived from my personal prferences, thanh's thesis etc What you use all
> > depends on your taste
>
>I have understand this, but I am still looking for docus to the
>'fonthandler'-commands, becaus I don't
>understand how this mechanism works.
>
>The  reason, why I am interesting in fonthandlers, was: To correct the
>lowerleftdoubleninequote-problem with cmr.
>To be honest, I am asking myself why this is not working out of the box,
>because cmr is TeX's standardfont.

in that case: grep the base path for guillemots since these are implemented 
by means of fonthandlers in the aer fonts; with regards to quotes, it may 
make sense to switch from cmr to aer; also, there is the latin modern 
coming, which will bring you all the quotes and chars you need [the latin 
modern family is officially launched at the next dante meeting]

Hans
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