Re: Problem with a font

[Malte Meyn]

Am 03.04.2018 um 17:30 schrieb Walter Garcia-Fontes:
> * Abraham Lee, address@hidden [03/04/18 17:23]:
> > Hi, Walter!
> > I took at a look at the internals of the font and you're not seeing
> > anything unintended (unfortunately). The single ASCII apostrophe is set
> > abnormally low compared to most any other font out there, which is why it
> > looks vertically offset by LilyPond. In LibreOffice and other
> > word-processors, when the user hits the button on the keyboard for the
> > ASCII apostrophe (same goes for quotation marks), the ASCII character gets
> > replaced by the true (curly) typographic apostrophe, which is set in the
> > more appropriate vertical position. Could be just an oversight or it could
> > be intentional. I'm not sure, but from what I am seeing, it's a "feature"
> > of the font and nothing that LilyPond is doing wrong. The obvious
> > alternative is to use typographic aposotrophes/quotation marks in your
> > source file and the problem should go away, appearing just like in
> > LibreOffice.
>
> Thanks a lot!, that's very clear.
>
> Just a question, sorry if it is obvious, what do you mean by
> "typographic apostrophes/quotation marks"?

ASCII: He said "I'd call it 'clear'."
That’s the forms used on typewriters which were included in the ASCII 
standard and found on most keyboards.

typographic: He said “I’d call it ‘clear’.”
That’s the forms used in books which are not part of ASCII but of 
Unicode and cannot be input on many keyboards; therefore some programs 
like Microsoft Office and OpenOffice/LibreOffice replace the ASCII forms 
by these.

Different languages use different typographic forms:

German style: Er sagte „Ich würd’s ‚klar‘ nennen.“
German style in some books: Er sagte »Ich würd’s ›klar‹ nennen.«