On 11/27/2021 6:40 PM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
On Sat, 27 Nov 2021, Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context wrote:
Jean-Philippe Rey via ntg-context schrieb am 27.11.2021 um 16:21:
Dear list,
When typing a straight quotation mark, I used to get a curly apostrophe. But
with a recent version of ConTeXt, I now get a straight apostrophe. Is there a
new option to convert automatically straight into curly apostrophes ?
\starttext
John's
\stoptext
The option is no longer part of the default feature set.
Personally, I think that that is a bit extreme. An apostrophe is a really
common construct and I suspect that this change in default will mean that
almost everyone needs to add tlig in their documents. We may perhaps need a
'sensible-defaults' module :-)
we entered the unicode world and left ascii space so for instance the
ugly enter `` '' and expect english double quotes is also a not-done
now, nor are !` and ?` for the spacing rotated ! and ?; i can't find the
font right now but there were with interesting space-something ligatures
that only didn't show up because tex has no space.
anyway, these kind of auto font dependent remappings and ligatures are
kind of tricky because they depend on the font and as such are a rather
specific 8 bit tex thing ... also, to some extend
now, there are more tex traditions that context doesn't support; take
this plain definition (there are many) dedicated to math users:
\mathcode`\^^D="225E % \land
which gives
\starttext
$^^D$
\stoptext
and as it's plain it's documented and in the tex book so users can
expect it. It's for those who can afford a
https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/maximus/ (i don't have one and it's
no longer for sale, alas).
Anyway, it's easier to enabel a feature that to disable one when side
effects of font handling kicks in happen.
Hans
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