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Re: Conversion of ``quotes''
From: |
Jesper Harder |
Subject: |
Re: Conversion of ``quotes'' |
Date: |
Tue, 13 May 2003 02:23:26 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:
> Eli meant within the implementation. makeinfo attempts to keep track of
> when it's in a typewriter-like environment (@example) where '' should
> not be converted to ", and when it's in regular text where such
> conversions should take place.
Ah, to make it possible to indent the entries with SPC -- that makes
sense.
> My point is that a literal ``'' looks really ugly (except in certain
> old broken X fonts).
>
> I'm not sure I agree with your characterization as "broken", but that's
> beside the point :).
I'm sure you already know this ... but In the ISO-8859-1 standard
these code points are defined as /grave accent/ and /apostrophe/.
Old X fonts that display glyphs similar to /left single quotation mark/
(U+2018) and /right single quotation mark/ (U+2019) are broken ... at
least if they're advertised as latin-1 fonts :-)
--
Cheers,
Jesper Harder