Hans van der Meer wrote:
> The \quote and \quotation macros surround text with quotation marks.
> These are made language dependent.
> In dutch the old way was an opening mark at the baseline and closing
> at the top of the letters; ConTeXt has been programmed this way.
> However, the lower quotation mark is less and less used in Dutch (vide
> Jan Renkema, Schrijfwijzer, 2002, p.382) and the English variants are
> now commonly used.
>
> This leads to two questions:
> 1. is there a setup-macro that can be used? (switching language around
> before quote and changing back inside is a bit awkward);
> \setupdelimitedtext[..][..]� is not documented in the manual, is this
> the one to use, and how?
> I tried this but could not effect a change and from the code I could
> not deduce what to change.
you can put this in your cont-sys.tex file:
\setuplanguage
[nl]
[\c!leftquote=\upperleftsinglesixquote,
\c!leftquotation=\upperleftdoublesixquote,
\c!rightquote=\upperrightsingleninequote,
\c!rightquotation=\upperrightdoubleninequote]
(of in some mine-def.tex and then do a \readfile{mine-def}{}{})
> 2. is this a case for changing ConTeXt's default for Dutch?
no, those defaults are kind of frozen
Hans
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