In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > makes sure that a regular quote ( ' ) is printed using a regular quote > in the output. > >I am not at all sure that it is an improvement, in terms of the >typographic output, to replace the normal directed right quote from the >typewriter fonts with the undirected quote at position 015. I think >many people would be unpleasantly surprised. I know I would be.
Yes, I understand, and I took that position myself at first, but we kept getting bugreports by people that cut & paste coding and were completely confused. The difference is hard to spot visually. > We have lots of users that cut & paste code from PDF files, which > >Cutting and pasting from PDF files works fine for me, but maybe I don't >have the right expectations. E.g., I run pdftex on the file below, >select it all in xpdf, paste it into an emacs buffer, and get out normal >characters as I would expect. Your patch actually makes cutting & >pasting work worse for me. Odd. Sorry, I was being unclear. The problem is with @example, @verbatim and @code. Cutting & paste with evince 0.5.1 @example g'16 @end example @verbatim g'16 @end verbatim Without patch, we get curly quotes, looks nice, but it is technically wrong. Cut & pasting from evince PDF into gedit UTF-8 produces gâ16 This is 67 e2 80 99 31 36, with e2 80 99 as a UTF-8 encoded U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK With patch I get g'16 67 27 31 36, which is the plain ASCII quotation mark. Perhaps it could be an optional feature. _______________________________________________ Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-texinfo
