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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: left quotation mark with tail going down ?
Message-ID: <28772@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 24 Dec 90 13:32:33 GMT
References: <52927@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <52927@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu
(Xiaofei Wang) writes:
>... how to make a left quotation mark with its tail going down?
>
>TeX uses left quotation mark with its tail going up and I can not find
>left quotation mark with its tail going down in TeX font tables. The 
>left quotation mark with its tail going down are used in publications
>such as ``Newsweek'' I just can not believe that TeX can not handle this.

Of course TeX cannot do this: you are asking for a new glyph: a new
character shape.  This is a job for a completely different program.
The task of creating a new font that is exactly like an old one, except
that the left quote mark is upside down, is trivial.  Just copy an
existing Metafont program, change its name, and change the left and
right quotes from being rotations of each other to being reflections
of each other.

All that aside, I feel compelled to mention that I find most upside down
left quotes grotesque.  I wonder what real type designers think?---although
no doubt (as with everything) these tastes vary.
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