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Re: address@hidden: changing line heights]
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: address@hidden: changing line heights] |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Sep 2003 07:56:30 +0200 (CEST) |
> It looks like the problem is that the appearances for 0x27 and 0x60
> don't look right for open and close quote, but the others that look
> right for open/close quote are at the same time too similar to each
> other. Is that correct?
Not really. It depends on the used fonts. `Classical' fonts like the
ETL bitmap fonts which provide only glyphs for ISO 8859 characters
normally don't have U+2018/U+2019 at all -- the exception is
greek-iso8859-7, but this is broken currently (see my other mail).
For such fonts, the ` and ' characters are almost exclusively used for
left and right quotes -- there is hardly a need to have a stand-alone
version of the grave accent. [I know this is hard to avoid on
e.g. German keyboards which use dead-keys to create accented
characters.]
In case someone wants to use U+2018 and U+2019 instead of 0x27 and
0x60, there must be a possibility to select the font. In my case, I
would select the ETL iso-8859-7 fonts for *some* modes, not for all.
> If we need to offer multiple options, this is a good way to make
> them default more correctly. At the same time, it might be a
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[Can't resist: Either something is correct, or it isn't -- what does
`more correctly' then mean? :-)]
> substantial amount of work just to enter and maintain data about
> lots of fonts.
I think this is unavoidable. IMHO you shouldn't combine glyphs from
different fonts without asking the user. Perhaps some standard fonts
can be covered in a table, but in general this won't work.
A suggestion: If the user types `C-u C-x =' while being on a left or
right quote, a string like
This glyph is probably taken from another font and thus looks ugly!
Please use `M-x configure-quotation-glyphs' to set up replacement
glyphs for the left and right quotation characters.
could appear in the pop-up window.
Werner
- Re: address@hidden: changing line heights], (continued)
- Re: address@hidden: changing line heights], Gerd Moellmann, 2003/09/25
- Re: address@hidden: changing line heights], Werner LEMBERG, 2003/09/25
- Re: address@hidden: changing line heights], Richard Stallman, 2003/09/25
- Re: address@hidden: changing line heights], Werner LEMBERG, 2003/09/26
- Re: address@hidden: changing line heights], James Clark, 2003/09/26
- Re: address@hidden: changing line heights], Richard Stallman, 2003/09/26
- Re: address@hidden: changing line heights],
Werner LEMBERG <=
- Re: address@hidden: changing line heights], Richard Stallman, 2003/09/28
- Re: address@hidden: changing line heights], Kai Grossjohann, 2003/09/27
- Re: address@hidden: changing line heights], Jason Rumney, 2003/09/26
- Re: address@hidden: changing line heights], James H . Cloos Jr ., 2003/09/26
Re: address@hidden: changing line heights], Kenichi Handa, 2003/09/26
Re: address@hidden: changing line heights], Richard Stallman, 2003/09/25