JAFITZWILLIA@vaxsar.vassar.edu (James M. Fitzwilliam x7227) (06/07/91)
A few questions for the experts from a humble PS diddler:
Why do straight quotes come out curly? That is, the test file
/inch {72 mul} def
/Times-Roman findfont 24 scalefont setfont
1 inch 8 inch moveto
(bleah') show
showpage
prints a typesetter's single close quote for the straight one. I tried this
with several of the standard LW+ fonts on both a LW and an HP LaserJet with a
Postscript cartridge. I also tried using \047 and got the same result.
Capturing PS from a Microsoft Word file containing both styles of quote, I
found that \324 and \325 were used for the curlies as one would expect, and
simply ' for the straights. Is this something in the Laser Prep?
Possibly related question: Postscript generated by the LW driver always uses
font names like /|______Times-Roman, which seem to be set up or associated to
the regular names by the Laser Prep. What is that for? I wasn't able to
unravel the definitions in the LW Prep to determine what exactly it was doing.
Thanks in advance. Please mail but don't use reply; I had to go through
another site to get this to post.
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