Re: Typographical quotes

[Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

On 11/27/2021 6:40 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Nov 2021, Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context wrote:
> 
>> Jean-Philippe Rey via ntg-context schrieb am 27.11.2021 um 16:21:
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> When typing a straight quotation mark, I used to get a curly apostrophe. But
>> with a recent version of ConTeXt, I now get a straight apostrophe. Is there a
>> new option to convert automatically straight into curly apostrophes ?
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>> John's
>>> \stoptext
>>
>> The option is no longer part of the default feature set.
> 
> Personally, I think that that is a bit extreme. An apostrophe is a really common construct and I suspect that this change in default will mean that almost everyone needs to add tlig in their documents. We may perhaps need a 'sensible-defaults' module :-)
we entered the unicode world and left ascii space so for instance the 
ugly enter `` '' and expect english double quotes is also a not-done 
now, nor are !` and ?` for the spacing rotated ! and ?; i can't find the 
font right now but there were with interesting space-something ligatures 
that only didn't show up because tex has no space.

anyway, these kind of auto font dependent remappings and ligatures are 
kind of tricky because they depend on the font and as such are a rather 
specific 8 bit tex thing ... also, to some extend

now, there are more tex traditions that context doesn't support; take 
this plain definition (there are many) dedicated to math users:

\mathcode`\^^D="225E % \land

which gives

\starttext
	$^^D$
\stoptext

and as it's plain it's documented and in the tex book so users can 
expect it. It's for those who can afford a 
https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/maximus/ (i don't have one and it's 
no longer for sale, alas).

Anyway, it's easier to enabel a feature that to disable one when side 
effects of font handling kicks in happen.

Hans

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