On Sat, 27 Nov 2021, Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context wrote:
Jean-Philippe Rey via ntg-context schrieb am 27.11.2021 um 16:21:
Dear list,
When typing a straight quotation mark, I used to get a curly apostrophe. But with a recent version of ConTeXt, I now get a straight apostrophe. Is there a new option to convert automatically straight into curly apostrophes ?
\starttext John's \stoptext
The option is no longer part of the default feature set.
Personally, I think that that is a bit extreme. An apostrophe is a really common construct and I suspect that this change in default will mean that almost everyone needs to add tlig in their documents. We may perhaps need a 'sensible-defaults' module :-) we entered the unicode world and left ascii space so for instance the ugly enter `` '' and expect english double quotes is also a not-done now, nor are !` and ?` for the spacing rotated ! and ?; i can't find the font right now but there were with interesting space-something ligatures
On 11/27/2021 6:40 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote: that only didn't show up because tex has no space. anyway, these kind of auto font dependent remappings and ligatures are kind of tricky because they depend on the font and as such are a rather specific 8 bit tex thing ... also, to some extend now, there are more tex traditions that context doesn't support; take this plain definition (there are many) dedicated to math users: \mathcode`\^^D="225E % \land which gives \starttext $^^D$ \stoptext and as it's plain it's documented and in the tex book so users can expect it. It's for those who can afford a https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/maximus/ (i don't have one and it's no longer for sale, alas). Anyway, it's easier to enabel a feature that to disable one when side effects of font handling kicks in happen. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------