Apologies, that must have slipped through my shoddy search.

Upon consideration I prefer the \quote and \quotation method.  Trusty old semantic markup. :)

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 18:58, James Fisher wrote:
>
> ``Yes, but --- ''
>
> In both cases, MKIV treats the opening grave character (is that the name?
> backtick?) literally rather than as an opening smart quote.

That's on purpose (there are some threads on the mailing list that
explain it). You may modify the behaviour if you want (without asking
how to do it), but it's best to use the proper quotes or
\quotation{...}.

Mojca

See:
[NTG-context] using `` '' the output is wrong.
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20100118.123457.5dc7162a.en.html
___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage  : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
archive  : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki     : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________