[XeTeX] Typographic question : quotation marks and apostrophes

Philip TAYLOR P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Thu Dec 15 16:07:28 CET 2011


Thank you, Jonathan (but I really do wish the answer
had been "no" : it is far to easy to mis-parse the
author's text).

Philip Taylor
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Jonathan Kew wrote:

>> In "Two wide ‘weaver’s windows’, usually found on the ground floor"
>> (which could equally well be "Two wide ‘weavers’ windows’, usually
>> found on the ground floor", but I am not the author), the apostrophe
>> of "weaver’s/weavers’" is the same Unicode character as the closing
>> quotation mark of "windows’".  Should it be ?
>
> Yes.


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