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From: ecogk@lure.latrobe.edu.au (Gabor Korosi)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: How to substitute for a ligature?
Message-ID: <1991May3.211126.5326@lure.latrobe.edu.au>
Date: 3 May 91 11:11:26 GMT
Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University
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Hi Gurus,

I am Hungarian, and Hungarian is full of accented letters, so I jumped at
the dx fonts of Norbert Schwarz as soon as I could. It is great (the only
problem that the capital Greek letters were discarded, so I still need the
cm fonts, just for them), but I am struck with the following problem:

Hungarian, like many other European languages (the only exception on the
continent I am aware of is French) uses the right English double quote 
shifted down to the baseline as left double quote. (That is ,,example'' 
instead of ``example''.) This is the "12 character in dx fonts. Is there 
any way to force TeX to use this character for the ligature `` rather than
the English default? The current solution I use is: 

%
%  Hungarian left double quote
%
\catcode`=\active
\def`{\futurelet\next\lqtest}
\def\lqtest{\ifx\next`\let\next\hunlqq \else\let\next\lq \fi\next}
\def\hunlqq#1{\hlqq}
\chardef\hlqq="12

and it works, but there must be a much simpler one. (Well, the \hunlqq 
could be cut out, but that is not my problem.)

Any idea? 

G\'abor K\H or\"osi