From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Typographical quotes
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 12:20:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8f96e83-af11-e99d-483c-afae8fadd516@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3c57cb6e-4b1d-12a5-0ea1-8e93203cf056@fiee.net>
On 11/28/2021 11:44 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
> Am 28.11.21 um 11:32 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context:
>> On 11/27/2021 9:48 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
>>
>>> I am not opposed to remove 8bit TeX hacks. I was simply objecting for
>>> removing the apostrophe mapping. For example, you used it in the
>>> sentence above (in “don't”)!
>> english quotes have hyjacked dutch quotes so long ago i already gave
>> up on caring too much ...
>
> It’s not English vs. Dutch (or any other language) but keyboard layout
> limitations from the typewriter era vs. typography.
>
> " and ' are wrong in English, too.
sure, i know that, but i was more refering to the fact that the visual
rendering (even publisher specs) became 'use the english ones', shape
and location wise (high/low) .. the dutch seem to care less about it
than germans, french, czech etc (same for positioning of quotes)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-28 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-27 15:21 Jean-Philippe Rey via ntg-context
2021-11-27 16:47 ` Denis Maier via ntg-context
2021-11-27 16:47 ` Denis Maier via ntg-context
2021-11-27 16:59 ` Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context
2021-11-27 17:04 ` Denis Maier via ntg-context
2021-11-27 17:08 ` Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context
2021-11-27 17:40 ` Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context
2021-11-27 19:15 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2021-11-27 20:48 ` Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context
2021-11-28 10:32 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2021-11-28 10:44 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2021-11-28 11:20 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2021-11-27 21:09 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2021-11-27 18:47 ` Jean-Philippe Rey via ntg-context
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