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This is puzzling me. If i type this in a text editor: \starttext These are 'quotes'. \starttyping let a = 'quoted string' \stoptyping \stoptext I'm using dumb quotes (hex 27). ConText renders this as this: These are ’quotes’. let a = ’quoted string’ ie the quotes have been educated - although only half-educated, since the opening one should be an opening one, if you see what I mean. But I really don't want characters in the verbatim (typing) section to change...because when you copy them from the PDF into an editor, the code listings don't work! There must be some kind of switch somewhere that stops ConteXt changing them? thanks for any help
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cormullion@mac.com wrote:
This is puzzling me. If i type this in a text editor:
\starttext These are 'quotes'. \starttyping let a = 'quoted string' \stoptyping \stoptext
I'm using dumb quotes (hex 27). ConText renders this as this:
These are �quotes�. let a = �quoted string�
ie the quotes have been educated - although only half-educated, since the opening one should be an opening one, if you see what I mean. But I really don't want characters in the verbatim (typing) section to change...because when you copy them from the PDF into an editor, the code listings don't work!
There must be some kind of switch somewhere that stops ConteXt changing them?
context does nothing with the quotes, its the font Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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On 2007-01-03, at 22:08.0, Hans Hagen wrote:
cormullion@mac.com wrote:
This is puzzling me. If i type this in a text editor:
\starttext These are 'quotes'. \starttyping let a = 'quoted string' \stoptyping \stoptext
I'm using dumb quotes (hex 27). ConText renders this as this:
These are �quotes�. let a = �quoted string�
ie the quotes have been educated - although only half-educated, since the opening one should be an opening one, if you see what I mean. But I really don't want characters in the verbatim (typing) section to change...because when you copy them from the PDF into an editor, the code listings don't work!
There must be some kind of switch somewhere that stops ConteXt changing them?
context does nothing with the quotes, its the font
Thanks, Hans. I'm a bit confused though: in the verbatim sections I want the vertical typewriter quote <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe_% 28mark%29#Computers_and_Unicode> rather than any '6' or '9' style quotation mark apostrophe. I can see the difference in most of the fonts I have here. In Courier, for example, the difference is about 25 degrees of slope, and the inclined quotation mark is lower down too. 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 ’...? many thanks for any help
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On 2007-01-03, at 22:08.0, Hans Hagen wrote:
cormullion@mac.com wrote:
This is puzzling me. If i type this in a text editor:
\starttext These are 'quotes'. \starttyping let a = 'quoted string' \stoptyping \stoptext
I'm using dumb quotes (hex 27). ConText renders this as this:
These are �quotes�. let a = �quoted string�
ie the quotes have been educated - although only half-educated, since the opening one should be an opening one, if you see what I mean. But I really don't want characters in the verbatim (typing) section to change...because when you copy them from the PDF into an editor, the code listings don't work!
There must be some kind of switch somewhere that stops ConteXt changing them?
context does nothing with the quotes, its the font
Thanks, Hans.
I'm a bit confused though: in the verbatim sections I want the vertical typewriter quote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe_%28mark%29#Computers_and_Unicode rather than any '6' or '9' style quotation mark apostrophe. I can see the difference in most of the fonts I have here. In Courier, for example, the difference is about 25 degrees of slope, and the inclined quotation mark is lower down too.
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
cormullion@mac.com wrote: preprocess verbatim lines, and/or remap characters so remind me in half a year (we can make a mkiv wish list) Hans -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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On 2007-01-04, at 15:53.0, Hans Hagen wrote:
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
Thanks Hans - I'm happy for it to be considered a problem - that's the first step towards getting a solution :-)...
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