On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:04:01AM -0700, Doug Ewell wrote: > Certain font designers have made these directional for decades, leading > to the hideous ``convention'' which some people seem to love, but which > is a classic example of abusing character encoding to achieve > typographical results.
This stems from TeX’s and its Computer Modern fonts, AFAIK, which are older than history... Regards, Khaled
