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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: using `` '' the output is wrong.
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:28:15 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1001191517150.4828@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201001192110.52273.alan.braslau@cea.fr>

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On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 January 2010 20:31:22 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> Let me be a bit more "nationalistic" and exaggerate a bit for a moment
>> (just in order to explain why I find the idea of using `` a bad one;
>> do not take the text below too seriously or personally):
>
> I think that the easiest would be for everyone to use English :)
> That's my bit for Imperialism!
>
> As I write in a mixture of languages, I like to use \quotation{}.
> But long-time TeX users have habits that die hard,
> and just as we expect fl to yield fl, we also learn many "bad" tricks
> such as ``'' and ...
>
>> - The deciding moment when some of these ugly tricks have been thrown
>> away was when we realized that if you do add those tricks, there is no
>> way to print the grave accent.
>
> How about {\`} (untested)

No. It is not easy. See 
http://archive.contextgarden.net/thread/20060912.165653.90ce7552.en.html

In particular, see Taco's reply.

Aditya

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-19 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-18 12:34 views63
2010-01-18 12:50 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-01-18 13:11   ` views63
2010-01-18 13:15   ` Alan BRASLAU
2010-01-18 13:47     ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2010-01-18 13:53     ` Hans Hagen
2010-01-19 19:31     ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-01-19 20:04       ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-01-19 20:10       ` Alan BRASLAU
2010-01-19 20:23         ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-01-19 20:26           ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-01-19 20:34             ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-01-19 20:44               ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-02-03 13:56             ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-01-19 20:28         ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2010-01-19 21:01         ` Hans Hagen
2010-01-19 21:02         ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-01-20  7:04           ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-01-20  7:28             ` Alan BRASLAU
2010-01-20  7:52               ` Peter Münster
2010-01-20  9:10               ` Hans Hagen
2010-01-20  9:58                 ` Alan BRASLAU
2010-01-20 10:39                   ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-01-20 14:42                   ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-03-04 18:41                     ` Khaled Hosny
2010-03-04 18:31                 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-01-20  9:03             ` Hans Hagen
2010-01-19 22:08         ` Peter Münster
2010-03-04 18:19       ` Khaled Hosny

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