On 2016-12-18, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Am Montag, den 12.12.2016, 11:01 +0000 schrieb Guenter Milde:
>> > > As opposed to that, I would rather introduce a plain quote style
>> > > and ditch the straight quote special char
>> Seconded. This could also solve the issue with the currently missing
>> straight single quote/apostrophe.
> Günter, do you have an idea how straight double quotes can be produced
> with OT1 font encoding? \textquotedbl is unavailable, and \char`\"
> (what we use currently for the straight quote in OT1) does not produce
> a straight quotation mark, but a closing English quotation mark.
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We could also take the symbol from T1 or the typewriter font:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{textcomp}
% \DeclareTextSymbol{\textquotedbl}{OT1}{`\"} % curly
\ProvideTextCommand{\textquotedbl}{OT1}{\texttt{\char'42}}
% \DeclareTextSymbolDefault{\textquotedbl}{T1}
\begin{document}
Straight quotes with OT1:
\textquotesingle{} and \textquotedbl.
\end{document}
Mark, that using the symbol from T1 does not require loading fontenc.
For the straight quotes, I'd prefer the typewriter font.
In a recent post, I asked about other characters missing in OT1 where I
suggest to either leave this to the user or use T1 characters as substitute.
Günter
