Taco Hoekwater wrote:

Jeff Smith wrote:

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When typesetting the document, I want the apostrophe to appear like a comma instead. The character is the single comma quotation mark (UTF U+2019). (As both characters exist with different UTF definition , this is not a font issue.)

This should happen automatically already. Context (well, TeX, really) is even smarter than that: If you type 'hello', it will automatically

It seems I was still half sleeping when I wrote that. The example should be `hello', not 'hello'.

Jeff Smith wrote:

On Nov 27, 2007 3:18 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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This should happen automatically already. Context (well, TeX, really) is even smarter than that: If you type 'hello', it will automatically visualise that as 'hello'. If this does not happen, something is not right with your input, and you'd better post a small example.

Indeed, your answer made me check back old documents I had printed. The comma apostrophe was there! When you don't think about those things, you never realize them...

So I checked back a bit, and what is wrong then is not my input per se, but my current document setup, which I don't know how to solve.

Two weeks ago, I asked about OpenType features. Mojca and Wolfgang thus gave examples of \definefontfeature. So, since I wanted to try out the historical ligatures in my font (dlig) alongside oldstyle nombers, I used the following, based on what I was told:

\definefontfeature [myfeatures] [method=node,script=latn,language=dflt,liga=yes,onum=yes,kern=yes,dlig=yes]

It turns out this is the culprit. When I comment that out, the comma apostrophes are back. :-)

This makes me very happy because after all I won't use the historical ligatures. Therefore, I can use the oldstyle feature set and everything works well.

That is not to say that wouldn't like to know how to solve what happened though. For the sake of it (and some eventual document's where this will be crucial), I would like to know what do I need to add to \definefontfeature for the apostrophe magic to work?

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Am 2007-11-27 um 17:15 schrieb Jeff Smith:

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tlig=yes trep=yes

On Nov 27, 2007 10:23 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: trep! Works perfecly.

It it's only about quotes, you should consider using \quote{} and \quotation{} instead of typing more or less correct quotation marks. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

Am 2007-11-28 um 20:07 schrieb Jeff Smith:

On Nov 28, 2007 1:26 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

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It it's only about quotes, you should consider using \quote{} and \quotation{} instead of typing more or less correct quotation marks.

Indeed. Anyway I already use \quote. :-) My question was rather about the apostrophe alone, like in "it's", or "don't", or "l'orange", "l'homme", which typographically should be like the comma (i.e. the single quotation mark). Therefore, you really have to use the symbol itself in the input.

Just write your own keyboard mapping – at least for MacOSX or Linux it’s rather easy. E.g. my usual keymap gives access to all accented Latin plus Greek and lots of other characters - I only keep forgetting what’s where, though, and it still contains some bugs ;-) Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)