john Culleton
Did a fresh install of context etc. from the context site. I used this test file: ------------------------------- \starttext ``Hello world.'' And ``Goodbye world.'' \stoptext %\bye ----------------------------------------- The resulting pdf shows two left tick marks for opening quotes but the closing quotes are proper curly quotes.
If I modify the file as follows: ------------------------------- %\starttext ``Hello world.'' And ``Goodbye world.'' %\stoptext \bye --------------------------- and use luatex or pdftex from texlive the quotes are OK.
I got similar results from context in texlive 2012 and texlive 2013.
What is the proper code for opening quotes in context?
The "truly proper" code is \quotation{Hello world.} - that style is guaranteed to work. (And, for instance, if you change context's language to French, then \quotation{Bonjour monde.} will automatically give you the correct style of French quotation marks without having to look up how to type them; likewise for other languages.) I think the problem of the two left tick marks may come from web browser copy-and-paste. Special marks, especially the quotation marks, apostrophes, and tick marks, are often mangled when converting to and from HTML. When copying any program's code from a web page, watch out for those marks, they've probably been mis-transcribed by the too-clever HTML rendering. -- David R