> It might also be worth pointing out that troff does just fine with `` and '' > as curly quotes, so there's not a lot of need to use the Unicode ones. > In fact, in the default fonts I find that the Unicode ones don't typeset > particularly well -- they are too compressed. > > So a more complete solution is just not to use them.
however, that's not a solution for documents which have used them. and in theory, “ and ” have been specially crafted by the font designer, taking into consideration all those fine details that require fonts to be hand-crafted and not built by computers. (knuth's cmrm font has ” at 042 and “ at 0134, the texbook, appendix f, p. 427.) wouldn't the best fix for poorly designed fonts be ... a better font? at least in theory. - erik
