2011/9/12 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk>: > > > Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:09, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) >> <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: >>> I wish I understood more about the "duplicate apostophe" problem, in order >>> to be able to offer a more directly relevant (and constructive) comment : >>> Google throws up nothing relevant. >> Users type ' (U+0027) and expect the proper apostrophe (U+2019) to >> show up in final PDF. Knuth just replaced the character (you cannot >> get U+0027 in pdfTeX, except in typewriter font). In XeTeX >> mapping=tex-text does that, but not all users use that one, so we need >> to support both variants. > > OK, (sort of) understood. But does a Unicode-aware user /really/ type > (U+0027) > [APOSTROPHE] if if he/she wants (U+0219) [ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK] > other than through habit/laziness ? I can quite see an ASCII-based TeX user > doing > just that, but those that are capable of entering real Unicode must surely be > aware > of the multiplicity of apostrophe-like characters [1] available to them, and > be capable > of choosing the correct one, must they not ? > This is the problem of keyboard. If I type the text, I want to type it, not click in a symbol map. thus I use characters available on my keyboard and those that can be easily entered by macros in TeX. I have recently modified my private xkb drivers for Czech and Devanagari by adding Czech and English quotes, endash and emdash. I need them not only in TeX but also in XML and HTML.
> ** Phil. > -------- > [1] Including, but not restricted to, APOSTROPHE, RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, > LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, PRIME, MODIFIER LETTER PRIME, > SINGLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK, ... > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
