On 2007-01-04, at 07:53, Hans Hagen wrote:

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So perhaps I should rephrase my question: how can I keep the vertical ' that I type into typing sections without it getting converted to a curvy quote ’...? non-trivial (we must make the ' always active then) ; in luatex we can preprocess verbatim lines, and/or remap characters so remind me in half a year

(we can make a mkiv wish list)

half a year later :-) No worries, at present. But I'd really like to solve this minor problem of incorrect quote-education at some stage in the future. I don't know how imminent the move to luatex is... cheers