On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Peter Baker wrote: > apostophe and the closing quotation mark are the same glyph. We'd have to kern > each instance manually. > > That said, it's pretty clear that we're stuck with what the Unicode Consortium > has decreed for us.
Old style and lining numerals are generally the same character codes as each other too, and we manage. I don't think that the fact of apostrophe and closing single quotation mark using the same code point is really a big obstacle to typographic effects that we might want to apply to them. A lot could be done with OpenType contextual substitution, though it might be better to use manually-selected alternates to convey the author's intention rather than guessing automatically. -- Matthew Skala [email protected] People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
