On Sat, 27 Nov 2021, Hans Hagen wrote:
On Sat, 27 Nov 2021, Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context wrote:
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
Jean-Philippe Rey via ntg-context schrieb am 27.11.2021 um 16:21: 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
On 11/27/2021 6:40 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote: there were with interesting space-something ligatures that only didn't show up because tex has no space.
I am okay with removing all these vestiges of TeX. But, I still think that the following should work okay: Let's try blah blah ... I could have entered it as Let’s try blah blah .. but it is not that natural to me.
now, there are more tex traditions that context doesn't support; take this plain definition (there are many) dedicated to math users:
I am not opposed to remove 8bit TeX hacks. I was simply objecting for removing the apostrophe mapping. For example, you used it in the sentence above (in “don't”)!
Anyway, it's easier to enabel a feature that to disable one when side effects of font handling kicks in happen.
I agree. Maybe I'll just add a imap in vim to map ' to ’ and forget about it.... Aditya