Re: Fonts in the title (that is, to have better apostrophes and commas)

[David Wright]

On Thu 13 Apr 2017 at 22:44:20 (+0200), Simon Albrecht wrote:
> Am 13.04.2017 um 19:25 schrieb Son_V:
> >Hi I would like to have apostrophes ( ' ) and commas ( " something " )
> those are called double-quotes in English
> >  not
> >straight. please suggest me. Maybe I should change the fonts?
> 
> This has nothing to do with fonts, as Joram already said. The
> question is how to enter the proper characters – sadly, there are
> very few keyboard layouts that conveniently handle them. (I use
> Neo2, which is optimised for German text.)
> One possibility is using a character map program. More convenient is
> using Frescobaldi’s ‘Special characters’ panel, if you are using
> Frescobaldi.
> Also, on Windows you can access a number of special characters by various
> Alt + <four-digit code on number block>
> combinations, e.g.
> Alt + 0132 -> „
> Alt + 0145 -> ‘
> Alt + 0146 -> ’
> Alt + 0147 -> “
> Alt + 0148 -> ”
> Alt + 0150 -> –
> 
> For more information, see <https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgolette>
> and <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Keyboards>.
> 
> It’s great that you’re interested in using the typographical
> characters! They are so much more beautiful :-)

And, of course, you don't need to quote them, so you can write

“Good -- bye”, she sang,

instead of

"\"Good" -- "bye\"", she sang,

Cheers,
David.