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Re: [TeXmacs] Weird quotes.


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  • From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
  • To: David Allouche <address@hidden>
  • Cc: <address@hidden>
  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] Weird quotes.
  • Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 11:25:09 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 20 May 2004, David Allouche wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 07:47:43PM +0200, Álvaro Tejero Cantero wrote:
> > - Here (1.0.3.7) trying to insert quotes (in spanish, but also in other
> > languages) results instead of << >> in a dotted capital "Z" character.
> >
> > [by the way, it would be sensible to extend the autoclosing behaviour
> > of quotes and parentheses, to the "¿" character in Spanish: it's only
> > used to open questions. Same for the "¡" character]
>
> You are using TrueType fonts. They are quite messed-up.

They use the CM encoding. Certain special characters are
not available or difficult to obtain.

> Switch back to EC or CM fonts to fix the problem, but then you will no
> longer get the nice PDF output.

For those characters you should use EC (not CM) fonts.

> Maybe those things will become easier to get right when Joris will have
> redesigned the encoding abstraction.

Maybe, but some characters are simply not available in the TrueType fonts;
I would have to check for << and >>.




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