[texhax] European quotation marks

[Beverley Eyre]

`` ... as a first step, I would see to it that things are called by 
their right names." -- Confucius

-Bev


Bernd Raichle wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Friday, 1 May 2009 13:01:17 +0200,
> Uwe Lueck <uwe.lueck at web.de> writes:
>  > At 18:07 10.04.09, Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) wrote:
>  > >Just a suggestion (and not necessary), but why not give the glyphs their 
>  > >correct name ? They are guillemets (glyphs), not guillemots (birds) ! ** Phil.
> [...]
>  > I suspected german.sty had brought it into TeX, it has `guillemot' as part 
>  > of control sequences. The documentation, however, says `guillemets'. 
>  > Inspector Taylor, would you please arrest Bernd Raichle and hear him?
>
> The words "guillemotleft" etc. were introduced into "german.sty" with
> the first support for LaTeX2e and its "inputenc" mechanism.  In 1994/5
> I simply copied the names from the LaTeX2e files when introducing the
> appropriate definitions for "text symbols" used for the various double
> and single quote glyphs.  Thus you have to arrest the responsible
> persons of the LaTeX2e team, Alan and Frank as authors of the first
> version of "inputenc" :-)
>
> Btw. is this prehistoric TeX archaeology? ;-}
>
> Best wishes,
>   -bernd
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