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[TIP] Get rid of the `foo' eyesore
From: |
Jesper Harder |
Subject: |
[TIP] Get rid of the `foo' eyesore |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Jul 2003 01:26:53 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
There's an entrenched habit in Emacs and Info of abusing ` (grave
accent) and ' (apostrophe) as left and right single quotation marks.
They aren't, and it looks horrible.
Some old broken X fonts do have the "wrong" glyphs in those positions
-- that's probably how the habit started. But fortunately there's a
better way to get rid of the eyesore than using a broken font. By
modifying the display table like this
(aset standard-display-table ?` [342392]) ; ‘
(aset standard-display-table ?' [342393]) ; ’
you can get proper, nice looking single quotes. This assumes that
your font has the required glyphs [U+2018 and U+2019], of course.
- [TIP] Get rid of the `foo' eyesore,
Jesper Harder <=