| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 840.1 | use <accent> tag | CLOSET::ANKLAM | | Mon Aug 24 1987 14:52 | 5 |
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Free-standing accent marks have to be printed via the <ACCENT>
tag, in this case <accent>(GRAVE).
patti
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| 840.2 | Isn't that a bit much? | IJSAPL::KLERK | Theo de Klerk | Wed Aug 26 1987 12:38 | 5 |
| Is there any particular reason to have ' to be printed through
<accent>(acute) ? Sounds a bit overdone to me... After all, it's just
a character as any other.
Theo
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| 840.3 | Do you type l for 1? | VAXUUM::SEGAL | | Wed Aug 26 1987 14:41 | 7 |
| That is the exact reason. It is a character, not the same character
as ' (apostrophe/single close quote). If you have access to both
LN03 and PostScript, you can should be able to see the stylistic
differences between Palacio (LN03 default serif text face) and
Times Roman (POST default serif text face).
Lee
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| 840.4 | It's too complicated for me... | DICKNS::WELLCOME | Steve | Wed Aug 26 1987 19:34 | 9 |
| It is still not clear to me why the character code defined as accent
grave (140 octal) in the DEC multinational character set comes out
looking like something else; like an accent acute, in fact. Printing
something that looks like an accent acute for the accent grave
character code is highly misleading. One might as well print
something that looks like a period when one sees the character code
for a comma.
However, now that I know how to get DOCUMENT to print what I want
I won't worry about it.
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| 840.5 | a guess | VIDEO::LASKO | i19n = 12 NRCs + 15 LKs + 16 KDs | Fri Aug 28 1987 00:22 | 5 |
| I can guess why: It's actually trying to print an opening quote,
but there isn't one available in the LN03 fonts...
[yeah, that sounds cryptic, but I'm looking for a confirmation before
I go into boring details.]
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| 840.6 | Gimme a stylus | CLOSET::SEGAL | | Fri Aug 28 1987 11:32 | 15 |
| The character is available, and is the single open quote.
The misconception is that it is the apostrophe, which is
easy to understand if you are familiar with typography.
The text quote and apostrophes in Palacio have a `chiseled'
appearance, and so both open and close varieties look
very much alike. They `tilt' in the same direction, but
the thickness of the character varies slightly. The left/open
characters are minutely thicker at the base and have a
tiny swash serif pointing TOWARD the text. The right/close
characters are thicker at the top, the and serif points
left off that thick part TOWARD the text they're quoting.
Lee
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