Re: Presentation forms (was Re: dotless j)

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Tue Jul 06 1999 - 16:08:55 EDT

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Jonathan Coxhead wrote:
>
> I wrote,
>
> | | non-directional single quote,
> |
> | Surely QUOTATION MARK?
>
> but of course I meant 'APOSTROPHE'.

Sort of. Computer Modern Typewriter has separate glyphs for
a normative apostrophe (a raised 9-shaped blob) and a vertical
tick (what real typewriters, Courier font, etc. use), and
therefore separate glyph codes 0x27 and 0x0D respectively.

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