Hi List,
On 15.12.2011 17:02, Jonathan Kew wrote:
On 15 Dec 2011, at 14:30, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
I know that a number of excellent typographers inhabit this
list, so I would like to pick their brains if I may ?
In "Two wide ‘weaver’s windows’, usually found on the ground floor"
(which could equally well be "Two wide ‘weavers’ windows’, usually
found on the ground floor", but I am not the author), the apostrophe
of "weaver’s/weavers’" is the same Unicode character as the closing
quotation mark of "windows’". Should it be ?
Yes.
But why? They are semantically different. Does this “identity” come from
historical roots?
A couple of excerpts from NamesList.txt:
0027 APOSTROPHE
= apostrophe-quote (1.0)
= APL quote
* neutral (vertical) glyph with mixed usage
* 2019 is preferred for apostrophe
So does this mean, that u0027 should not be used at all for natural
languages? I don't think, unicode would stretch its recommendation to
programming languages, which use u0027 as string delimiters.
* preferred characters in English for paired quotation marks are 2018&
2019
Thank nature, I mostly speak German … Nein!
x (modifier letter prime - 02B9)
x (modifier letter apostrophe - 02BC)
x (modifier letter vertical line - 02C8)
x (combining acute accent - 0301)
x (prime - 2032)
So what's the recommendation for math mode in XeTeX concerning
prime/apostroph?
x (latin small letter saltillo - A78C)
...
2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
= single comma quotation mark
* this is the preferred character to use for apostrophe
x (apostrophe - 0027)
x (modifier letter apostrophe - 02BC)
x (heavy single comma quotation mark ornament - 275C)
JK
Thanks
Toscho
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