[XeTeX] XeTeX 1.0 - request for comments

[Adam Lindsay]

Pavel StraÀák said this at Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:42:45 +0200:

>I would also love to see the option to expand the quotation marks 
>depending on the language.
>
>In CsLaTeX I can say \csprimeson and \csprimesoff to typeset Czech 
>quotation marks.
>In XeLaTeX with Fontspec I would love "mapping=tex-text" to change the 
>behavoir depending on locale specified by babel or \XeTeXlocale "cs", 
>or something like that. CsLaTeX uses \usepackage{czech} for this.

I know this is very far afield of the original intent of your post, but
the ConTeXt macro package has this language support built in when you
use structural markup like \quote{this}. Czech and other central
european languages have fairly mature support within ConTeXt.

adam
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