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Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 08:44:43 +0000



What kind of font slants ‘ to the right?


Many (but not all) fonts.


Why is that a reasonable rendering?


Because the quotation mark is a transformed comma. The right quotation mark is a raised comma, and the left quotation mark is an raised comma rotated by 180 degrees. In many (but not all) fonts, the shape of a comma is more or less that of a triangle with an obtuse angle at the top left, that is, slanted to the right. When you rotate such a shape by 180 degrees, it is again slanted to the right.


And how do you distinguish between ‘ and ’ with that font?


Because the thick part (aka the dot) of ‘ is at the bottom of the character, and the thick part of ’ is at the top of the character.
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