Re: Bad ligatures with fontenc

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

Gavin Smith wrote:
> In the LaTeX output, the fontenc package is used as
>
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>
> [...]
>
> It appears in whatever font fontenc is using, there is a ligature that
> transforms ,, into a single character.
>   

If I understand correctly, there is a convention (somewhere) for using 
above/below quotation marks; the double comma is used to represent the 
"below" closing quotation mark.  Could we put a zero-width space (some 
kind of TeX item that does not take up space) between the commas to 
break the ligature?

The shift operators as guillemets is the same issue.  Those are used in 
(parts of?) continental Europe as quotation marks.


-- Jacob