[XeTeX] Typographic question : quotation marks and apostrophes

[William Adams]

On Dec 15, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Tobias Schoel wrote:

> But why? They are semantically different. Does this “identity” come from historical roots?

The same stroke was used by the scribes for both purposes / the characters are taught the same when written and when printed as metal type the same physical sort was used for each.

Just be glad you have curly quotes to use --- some sign-cutting systems only allow the uni-directional stick quote to be typed.

William

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