Re: Which standard installed font displays ' and ` good

[Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com>]

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2011/3/23 mathew <meta@pobox.com>

> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:23, Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I am still experimenting. With the default ' is reasonably displayed, but
> `
> > not.
> > I liked palatino, but then even ' is not displayed nicely. What is the
> best
> > (standard installed) font where both ' and ` are good displayed?
>
> I think your expectations may be at fault.
>

You are completely right. That is why a mailing list like this is useful.
;-}



> In ConTeXt, ` is not "open quote", it is backtick. If you want an open
> quote, you have to type one.
>
> Typeset this text to see what I mean:
>
> \starttext
> ` Backtick\crlf
> ' Apostrophe\crlf
> ‘ Open curly quote\crlf
> ’ Close curly quote
> \stoptext
>
> If you actually want backtick, perhaps you could say what you think is
> wrong with it in Palatino?
>

Wrong is maybe not the correct word, but when compiling this code:
    \starttext
    ` Backtick\crlf
    ' Apostrophe\crlf
    ‘ Open curly quote\crlf
    ’ Close curly quote

    ‘some quoted text’

    “some doublequoted text”

    \setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,12pt]

    ‘some quoted text’

    “some doublequoted text”

    \stoptext

Then I find the font from palatino better looking, but the default quotes
better as the palatino's.

I have to change all my ‘quotes’ again.

Attached my Xmopdmap.extra which incorperates these single and double
quotes.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof

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!! The following four codes are system dependend and should be checked before using.
!! alt gr  108
!! menu    135
!! windows 133
!! r-ctrl  105
keycode 108       = Mode_switch
keycode 135       = Multi_key

keysym grave      = grave        asciitilde  leftsinglequotemark  rightsinglequotemark
keysym 1          = 1            exclam      onesuperior          onequarter
keysym 2          = 2            at          twosuperior          onehalf
keysym 3          = 3            numbersign  threesuperior        threequarters
keysym 4          = 4            dollar      foursuperior         sterling
keysym 5          = 5            percent     fivesuperior         endash
keysym 6          = 6            asciicircum sixsuperior
keysym 7          = 7            ampersand   sevensuperior        emdash
keysym 8          = 8            asterisk    eightsuperior
keysym 9          = 9            parenleft   ninesuperior
keysym 0          = 0            parenright  degree
keysym minus      = minus        underscore  yen
keysym equal      = equal        plus        notequal             plusminus

keysym w          = w            W           aring                Aring
keysym e          = e            E           EuroSign
keysym r          = r            R           registered
keysym t          = t            T           thorn                Thorn

keysym f          = f            F           ordfeminine
keysym backslash  = backslash    bar         notsign              brokenbar

keysym semicolon  = semicolon    colon       trademark
keysym apostrophe = apostrophe  quotedbl    leftdoublequotemark  rightdoublequotemark

keysym z          = z            Z           Greek_omega          Greek_OMEGA
keysym c          = c            C           cent                 copyright
keysym m          = m            M           masculine            mu
keysym period     = period       greater     ellipsis
keysym slash      = slash	    question    questiondown

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