From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/11306 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: lowerleftdoubleninequote Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:20:37 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20030311091838.08fca9e0@server-1> References: Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047372413 20484 80.91.224.249 (11 Mar 2003 08:46:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:46:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Tue Mar 11 09:46:51 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18sfPP-0005K6-00 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:46:51 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B138210B52; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:47:31 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.nl (mail.solcon.nl [212.45.33.11]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984A610B50 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:43:10 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (wc-58016.solcon.nl [212.45.58.16]) by mail.solcon.nl (8.12.5/pre1.0-MySQL/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h2B8h6uo032365 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:43:07 +0100 Original-Received: from LAPTOP-3.wxs.nl (laptop-3 [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h2B8h6Ea007656 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:43:07 +0100 X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.1(snapshot 20020919) (mail.solcon.nl) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:11306 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:11306 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------