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From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Opening quotes problem with context.
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 16:47:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALBOmsaupgUyy8eDJLZOpwrzbC3egbDFvNv_m8-Tdu1NxKWXEA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130727102944.4ebbc6bf@wexfordpress>

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 4:29 PM, john Culleton wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:13:18 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> I think I will encapsulate the "\quotation" method in a macro like
> \def\qq{\\quotation\{}
> or similar. Two keystrokes are better than  nine.
>
> I note that the plain TeX version of closing quotes, '' still works.

It doesn't. You get two apostrophes (which usually happen to look like
a double quotation mark).

> Would it be that hard to make the opening quotes of `` still work?

No. See tlig and trep in tex/context/base/font-otc.lua.

Actually, I see no reason for not adding another font feature (maybe
called "+knuth", "+legacy" or "+cmr") which would be disabled by
default and could be activated by user.

Mojca
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-27 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-22 15:40 john Culleton
2013-07-22 15:44 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-07-23 16:10   ` Sietse Brouwer
2013-07-24 14:58 ` David Rogers
2013-07-24 16:13   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-07-27 14:29     ` john Culleton
2013-07-27 14:45       ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-07-27 14:47       ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]
2013-07-27 15:09         ` Mojca Miklavec
2013-07-27 14:53       ` Marco Patzer

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