From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Thangalin <thangalin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Straight Quotes / Curly Quotes
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:03:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8168d95a-bd44-02d1-e1cf-348978224dfa@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAANrE7p-kz=PmexizWjR5yLv5o07oe-3M+T1WA5NXJQAw6AP_Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 6/18/2021 6:05 PM, Thangalin wrote:
> > In HTML you should be able to use <q> – I know that doesn’t work
> reliably in browsers (some add straight quotes to my CSS-configured
> guillemets).
>
> The Converter class maps token replacements:
>
> https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenquotes/blob/d6c9761f8fe1ae96391f25dc73be52050a148e37/src/main/java/com/whitemagicsoftware/keenquotes/Converter.java#L15
> <https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenquotes/blob/d6c9761f8fe1ae96391f25dc73be52050a148e37/src/main/java/com/whitemagicsoftware/keenquotes/Converter.java#L15>
>
> It'd be trivial to use <q> and </q>, instead. For my purposes, HTML
> entities work.
>
> > Using \quotation / \quote I avoid typing quotation marks in most cases.
>
> When writing plain text documents, adding TeX code or HTML code to
> prescribe how the document should be presented is best avoided, so as to
> keep the document decoupled from a particular tool chain. YMMV. A deeper
> solution allows users to type the correctly curled quotes directly into
> the document.
As with may things today this quote is rather english language centered
.. tex operates in a multi lingual domain and quotes have always been
dealt with using macros so that we can be sure we get the right ones
(left/right) with the right spacing.
Hans
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-17 20:28 Thangalin
2021-06-17 22:10 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-06-17 22:35 ` Hans Hagen
2021-06-18 2:08 ` Thangalin
2021-06-18 6:09 ` Hans Hagen
2021-06-18 15:48 ` Thangalin
2021-06-18 17:12 ` Hans Hagen
2021-06-18 10:00 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-06-18 16:05 ` Thangalin
2021-06-18 17:03 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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