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.