\lowerleftdoubleninequote (German quotes)
Dear all, I want to use German double quotes for my text but noticed that the beginning double quotation sign/glyph is somewhat corrupt: there is a bigger distance between the two signs than is with the ending double quote (which are typographically correct). To make this a bit clearer, I have appended to this email an examle. If you look very carfully you can see this effect already in the Context Manual, chapter 10.8 page 198 (\lowerleftdoubleninequote). The Code of the appended pdf is the following: \mainlanguage [de] rules, quote signs etc. \starttext Dies ist ein \quotation{Test}. \stoptext Has anybody noticed this error, or does anybody know a solution? Thanks, Frank
Frank Grieshaber said this at Wed, 4 May 2005 11:07:46 +0200:
\mainlanguage [de] rules, quote signs etc.
\starttext Dies ist ein \quotation{Test}. \stoptext
Has anybody noticed this error, or does anybody know a solution?
Looks like an encoding problem, which, unfortunately, is tied up in the version and Latin Modern font installation. I note that you're using CMR in that file, which means that you're using the default encoding, which means you're in effect typesetting a pair of commas. Using the Latin Modern fonts means you're using one of the rich encodings (e.g., EC or texnansi). Unfortunately, without knowing more about your setup, I can't really advise on how to update to Latin Modern. (You should upgrade to a modern ConTeXt release as well.) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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beginning double quotation sign/glyph is somewhat corrupt: there is a bigger distance between the two signs than is with the ending double quote (which are typographically correct).
This is a known issue. CMR doesn't have real quotation marks and ConTeXt doesn't work around this by using explicit kerning. Solution is to use a different font. Or some magic that I don't know. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net
i noticed that error too, but don't know a solution. shorter commands for the same glyphs are \quotedblleft and \quotedblbase - first is ok, second not. (tip: try \showcharacters if you are looking the most common symbols) johannes Frank Grieshaber wrote:
Dear all, I want to use German double quotes for my text but noticed that the beginning double quotation sign/glyph is somewhat corrupt: there is a bigger distance between the two signs than is with the ending double quote (which are typographically correct). To make this a bit clearer, I have appended to this email an examle. If you look very carfully you can see this effect already in the Context Manual, chapter 10.8 page 198 (\lowerleftdoubleninequote).
The Code of the appended pdf is the following:
\mainlanguage [de] rules, quote signs etc.
\starttext Dies ist ein \quotation{Test}. \stoptext
Has anybody noticed this error, or does anybody know a solution?
Thanks, Frank
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Patrick Gundlach