There's a trivial variation named Inconsolata-dz, http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/adding-straight-single-and-double-quotes-inconsola/ which I've used happily with XeTeX; maybe R can use it in place of the original if you rename it Inconsolata, but that would presumably be against the font licence.
baptiste On 8 August 2012 04:13, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > On 06/08/12 23:01, Mike Lawrence wrote: >> >> Is there any way to ensure that quotation marks are left as straight >> quotes and not converted to curly quotes in the \usage and \examples >> sections when the pdf versions of the docs are created? > > > They are not converted ... so there cannot be a way. > > In standard terminology 'quotation marks' are ASCII/Unicode " , and that is > what is in the PDF files (in so far as we can guess what you mean without an > explicit example). I have no idea what 'straight quotes' and 'curly quotes' > are in your lexicon, but how even ASCII characters are rendered depends on > the fonts used. > > The R pdf manuals by default use inconsolata, where quotation marks are > somewhat italic. We knew that when selecting inconsolata, but it was the > best compromise of the feasible choices. Chose something else it you prefer > a different compromise. > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
