From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25587 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mojca Miklavec Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Problem with German quotes and kerning Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:53:59 +0100 Message-ID: <6faad9f00601261653o214ea426pa4f3110f71200362@mail.gmail.com> References: <1BFDD604-4DEB-41EE-8B78-61A4811B8160@uni-bonn.de> <6faad9f00601250445r10e89c52x4401f0017dfffde2@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138323274 11789 80.91.229.2 (27 Jan 2006 00:54:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:54:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jan 27 01:54:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2Hsh-00063i-RZ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:54:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0268127F1; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:54:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 20630-06; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:54:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3129127D1; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:54:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C546127D1 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:54:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22823-03 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:54:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.192]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 66B0A127BF for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:54:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o25so231604nfa for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:54:18 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.48.48.4 with SMTP id v4mr114755nfv; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:53:59 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.48.14.18 with HTTP; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:53:59 -0800 (PST) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:25587 Archived-At: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > On the transferred page: > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Wishes_for_Latin_Modern > > there are already kerning issues listed. > > > > If the problem on that page is not expressed clearly enough (and if > > the proposal is not OK), add your comments to that page. > > Well, the problem is that this is not really relevant to my question. > Of course it would be good to have proper kerning for German quotes > implemented in the fonts, Latin Modern or any other font. But the way > this is now handled in lang-ger.tex, this kerning is not applied in > ConTeXt! So even if LM were perfect in this regard, we still wouldn't > have properly kerned German quotes (am I making sense here, or is > this not clear enough?). Sorry. I understood the problem (I also asked a couple of times on the list already about it), but I probably really misunderstood the point of your question. How is the \quotedblbase V? (I just tried it for the first time.) Mojca