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["Sam Liddicott" <address@hidden>]

It just leaves the problem of the grouping of back-quote and apostrophe 
which probably shouldn't happen when mode=prog.

i.e. `` should not be kerned, nor should ' '

Sam

On 07/01/11 16:41, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> Dear Sam,
>
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 04:23:02PM -0000, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> > Joris, do you have any comments about this backtick weirdness?
> >
> > I think back ticks should have fixed width when mode=prog.
> >
> > I'm curious about the reasoning behind backticks being exported in text
> > as unicode 0xE28098 which looks quite different.
> David Allouche made this decision a long time ago.
> I don't remember the rationale, but there surely was one.
>
> > I'm curious how that when a text file with a back-tick is imported a
> > different symbol is show on the screen (looks like a normal back-tick,
> > i.e. a grave accent instead of a back-quote).
> >
> > Perhaps when the back-tick key is pressed when mode=prog it should
> > generate the character represented as \0 (what a weird representation?);
> Thank Knuth for using these characters in fonts.
>
> > and when mode=prog this character should be exported as ascii 0x60
> > instead of unicode 0xE28098
> That would be the simplest thing to do.
>
> > If this sounds reasonable to you I will try to contrive it and send a
> > patch, although I fear that interpreting a keystroke differently when
> > mode=prog will be simpler than cut-n-paste differently into a place
> > where mode=prog - perhaps you could advise?
> I don't really know; please investigate... --Joris


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