Re: pdfeTeX error when compiling lilypond.texi with accents in node names

[Oleg Katsitadze]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 07:00:10PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> I fail to see how this Unicode definition improved the situation over ',

IIUC, according to the standard, U+2019 is used both for right quote
and for apostrophe.  But I still don't know what you meant by
"disambiguation", in the first place :).

> we don't want to get in trouble with the Big Oil company by that name :).

Yeah, I think we better leave "chevrons" alone :).

> Not adding to the constant name proliferation seems like better karma ...

I think you're right.  Those who use both LaTeX and Texinfo without
national keyboards will certainly be happy :).  So, considering your
other message, I think we'll stick to Adobe names for all glyphs
except "guillemots", which we'll make "guillemets".  Sounds good?

> when is it useful to have the
> commands instead of the characters that we have now?

I thought of letting users (easily) define aliases.  For example, some
users might prefer:

  @alias lgqq = quotedblbase
  @alias rgqq = lquotedbl

  @address@hidden

instead of

  @alias lgqq = quotedblbase

  @lgqq{}...``

BTW, here's a nice overview of quote usage in various languages:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark%2C_non-English_usage#Overview

Looks like all possible permutations are there :).

Best,
Oleg