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From: ecogk@lure.latrobe.edu.au (Gabor Korosi)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: How to substitute for a ligature?
Message-ID: <1991May4.112913.5338@lure.latrobe.edu.au>
Date: 4 May 91 01:29:13 GMT
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eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) answers to my question:
> 
>>      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?
> 
> Yes. Unfortunately you have to go outside TeX.
  ... The solution via .pl files deleted.

I am sorry, I failed to add that I want to keep the English double quote as
well. Half the text I write is in English, half is in Hungarian. I occasionally
happen to write in French as well. (They use the << >> ligatures for `` '',
which are also available in dx fonts.)  

>  
> Happy hacking!

Not like that, thanks. I prefer to have a flexible solution which I can switch
along with the \language (ie, hyphenation table), rather than hard-wiring. 
Just I hoped for a better solution than the one I presented.
> 
> Victor.

G\'abor