Re: [NTG-context] open quotation not working

On 10/22/2013 2:57 AM, john Culleton wrote:

On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 11:30:54 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Am 13.10.2013 um 06:09 schrieb Ciro A. Soto :

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sorry, I just saw an old chain of messages about this question... I fixed it with the translation module. \usemodule[translate] \translateinput[``][“] \enableinputtranslation

Better use real quotation marks “ and ” or \quotation{…}.

Wolfgang ________________________________________________________________________

Why is it better? And why is it so difficult to just reinstall the traditional TeX method of handling quotes? Even the MSWin version of smart quotes using the " glyph would be a worthwhile simplification.

traditional tex was meant for (us) english ... and geared at cm fonts .. you can't expect all context users to take english as their default so either you use the proper quotes for your language (as wolfgang pointed out) or you use \quotation (which adapt itself to the main language)

Not every change is an improvement, IMO.

there are more such traditional features that are fine in a restricted usage but not that handy today btw, if you look into the traditional tex fonts you see more pseudo ligatures (-- --- space+... some quotes) and if you ever had to use a commercial font or a free one not tuned for tex, you wouldn't have had those quote ligs either ... it is a dependency you don't want nowadays Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------