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From: js@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jay Sekora)
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Subject: Re: ` and ' different in NeXT and laserwiter Courier fonts
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Date: 14 Jun 91 15:10:01 GMT
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> The NeXT Courier Bold has Palatino type quotes. They are both 
> slanted in the same direction, but the open quote is heavier 
> on the bottom and the close quote is heavier on top. I really 
> don't like them this way because they look too similar, I prefer 
> opposite slants. I know this may seem picky, but my manager 
> won't accept the NeXT quotes.

An obvious thing to try is converting all open single quotes to grave
accents before printing.  If you usually print from Edit you could
make a user pipe (with tr) to do that.  The grave accent is a bit
lighter, but doensn't look bad.

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