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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: How to substitute for a ligature?
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Date: 4 May 91 21:54:44 GMT
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ecogk@lure.latrobe.edu.au (Gabor Korosi) writes:

>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.)  

Another suggestion: why do you want to use the `` ligature?
Why don't you define ,, as a ligature that will give you the
correct character? And for French << and >> ?? I mean: ?

Victor.