Re: When I don't want quotes

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Maurí­cio wrote:
>>>  >>>> I need to write ''''' in a text. However,
>>>  >>>> (...) I really need it to be 5 times U0027,
>>>  >>>> not ""' (U201C and U2018). (...)
>>>
>>>  > (...)
>>> Both also didn't work. (...)
>> Indeed, I am using mkiv... But you should be able to use \char etc. to get
>> the same effect.
>>
>> pdftex is not working at the moment here -- see my message to the list --
>> so I can't test this at the moment, but in pdftex there is
>>
>>   \unicodecharacter{number} (...)
>>
>> Another option is to use utf8 encoding and insert a zero-width space
>> (200B) between the 0027's. (...) should break the dbl-quote (...)
>
> \unicodecharacter wasn't recognized. I do use uft8
> encoding, and nothing else (ever). But the problem
> is not to break the bls-quote, but avoiding '
> transformed to '.
>
> Thanks for your help. I'm probably going to try
> something else, like writing this documentation on
> a web page.

Cleaninng up my mailbox (so I'm not sure if you still need the answer) ...

Are you using pdfTeX or LuaTeX/XeTeX? In pdfTeX you need to switch the
font (or at least change the encoding to texnansi)

\usetypescript[modern][texnansi]
\setupbodyfont[modern,10pt]
\starttext
\dorecurse{5}{\quotesingle} % or \char129
\stoptext

In new engines you can switch off tlig. If you need that, please ask
(but again - you need to be aware that you either need to create a new
font instance or switch off conversion into apostrophe globally).

Mojca
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