From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Thangalin <thangalin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Straight Quotes / Curly Quotes
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 08:09:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d138b69f-94bb-8577-2e67-d72d8b9d2421@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAANrE7rK9Cj7-wDUeHdqogJHQB+wCyVLT3L5X0FPk0+kWWZZzg@mail.gmail.com>
On 6/18/2021 4:08 AM, Thangalin wrote:
> Hraban,
>
> > In what kind of workflows does your program make sense?
>
> Have you looked around the web lately?
>
> KeenWrite (https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
> <https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite>), my plain text editor, can
> neither convert nor easily type curly quotes into the application.
> Recently, I added ConTeXt integration for exporting to PDF files.
> ConTeXt doesn't curl the quotes, which I found a little surprising
> (because LaTeX has a quote curling package). Not seeing an obvious
> solution, I coded my own library because all the other libraries I found
> were either not up to the task or required a massive natural language
> parser dependency.
>
> My workflow will be: Edit plain text in KeenWrite, export to XHTML, curl
> the quotes, run ConTeXt to typeset XHTML.
>
> Another workflow: Edit plain text in KeenWrite, export to XHTML, curl
> the quotes, upload to CMS.
>
> The problem is that when typewriters were invented, curly quotes didn't
> make it onto the popular layouts. Then, after Unicode, curly closing
> single quotes and curly apostrophes were not made unique. HTML entities
> get it right, though, with l/rdquo, l/rsquo, and apos. C'est la vie.
what do you mean with 'latex curls quotes' .. can you give an example
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-18 6:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-17 20:28 Thangalin
2021-06-17 22:10 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-06-17 22:35 ` Hans Hagen
2021-06-18 2:08 ` Thangalin
2021-06-18 6:09 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2021-06-18 15:48 ` Thangalin
2021-06-18 17:12 ` Hans Hagen
2021-06-18 10:00 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-06-18 16:05 ` Thangalin
2021-06-18 17:03 ` Hans Hagen
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