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From: JAFITZWILLIA@vaxsar.vassar.edu (James M. Fitzwilliam x7227)
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Subject: Straight quotes or curly?
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A few questions for the experts from a humble PS diddler:

Why do straight quotes come out curly?  That is, the test file
  /inch {72 mul} def
  /Times-Roman findfont 24 scalefont setfont
  1 inch 8 inch moveto
  (bleah') show
  showpage
prints a typesetter's single close quote for the straight one.  I tried this
with several of the standard LW+ fonts on both a LW and an HP LaserJet with a
Postscript cartridge.  I also tried using \047 and got the same result. 
Capturing PS from a Microsoft Word file containing both styles of quote, I
found that \324 and \325 were used for the curlies as one would expect, and
simply ' for the straights.  Is this something in the Laser Prep?

Possibly related question: Postscript generated by the LW driver always uses
font names like /|______Times-Roman, which seem to be set up or associated to
the regular names by the Laser Prep.  What is that for?  I wasn't able to
unravel the definitions in the LW Prep to determine what exactly it was doing.

Thanks in advance.  Please mail but don't use reply; I had to go through
another site to get this to post.

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