[XeTeX] tex-text and more quotes

[Thomas Hühn]

Apostolos Syropoulos schrieb:
> I believe these additional mappings are practically useless and here is why:

I dearly missed those mappings, just a few days ago.

> when one uses a native keyboard she should be able to get these extra characters by
> pressings certain keys.  It seems to me that XeTeX provides more than enough.

Show me a keyboard that has „

The German mapping does not have this.

Via Compose in X it is possible, but few people have set that up and are
acquainted with that. And how do you do it in Windows?

And why don't you demand the removal of those other, existing
"shortcuts" like ---? Or the other quote characters?

If people want to use in their native language using sound typography,
they shall go the painful way, otherwise they don't appreciate it?

There are several people (many, I guess) who consider such mappings a
huge help. And there is you who hasn't presented any arguments except
"it can be done in another way". Maybe you could elaborate why you think
it's a bad idea to make life easier for us?

Thomas