Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!ox-prg!culhua!Damian.Cugley From: Damian.Cugley@prg.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: How to substitute for a ligature? Message-ID: Date: 7 May 91 16:48:27 GMT References: <1991May3.211126.5326@lure.latrobe.edu.au> Sender: news@prg.ox.ac.uk Organization: Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, UK Lines: 21 In-reply-to: ecogk@lure.latrobe.edu.au's message of 3 May 91 11:11:26 GMT > From: Gabor Korosi > Message-Id: <1991May3.211126.5326@lure.latrobe.edu.au> > Hungarian 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? It ought to be possible to have two commas (,,) meaning a double comma just as '' is a double apostrophe. (If it isn't already it ought to be.) Also, so far as I am aware(*), when this style of quotation is used, the right quote is usually two inverted commas: ,,example`` as opposed to ,,example''. Damian ------------------------------ (*) Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers, 39th ed., p.110. (Oxford University Press, 1990)