[XeTeX] Typographic question : quotation marks and apostrophes
Tobias Schoel
liesdiedatei at googlemail.com
Thu Dec 15 18:18:24 CET 2011
Hi List,
On 15.12.2011 17:02, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 15 Dec 2011, at 14:30, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
>
>> I know that a number of excellent typographers inhabit this
>> list, so I would like to pick their brains if I may ?
>>
>> 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.
But why? They are semantically different. Does this “identity” come from
historical roots?
>
> A couple of excerpts from NamesList.txt:
>
> 0027 APOSTROPHE
> = apostrophe-quote (1.0)
> = APL quote
> * neutral (vertical) glyph with mixed usage
> * 2019 is preferred for apostrophe
So does this mean, that u0027 should not be used at all for natural
languages? I don't think, unicode would stretch its recommendation to
programming languages, which use u0027 as string delimiters.
> * preferred characters in English for paired quotation marks are 2018& 2019
Thank nature, I mostly speak German … Nein!
> x (modifier letter prime - 02B9)
> x (modifier letter apostrophe - 02BC)
> x (modifier letter vertical line - 02C8)
> x (combining acute accent - 0301)
> x (prime - 2032)
So what's the recommendation for math mode in XeTeX concerning
prime/apostroph?
> x (latin small letter saltillo - A78C)
>
> ...
>
> 2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
> = single comma quotation mark
> * this is the preferred character to use for apostrophe
> x (apostrophe - 0027)
> x (modifier letter apostrophe - 02BC)
> x (heavy single comma quotation mark ornament - 275C)
>
> JK
Thanks
Toscho
More information about the XeTeX
mailing list