Re: Default macroses for "guillemot"s

Colin Coates <[email protected]> Fri, 22 Dec 2017 09:13:29 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.type-setting.lout
Message-ID <CAELwQbT+o9bc3HDCW1XV21CzkLfV+3cGWErYRhMTpeGPwM4dfg@mail.gmail.com>
This seems like a good idea to me. These characters are used in the
UML/SysML software/systems modelling notation as well, so the proposed
macros would be useful at multiple levels. ;-)

/Colin C

On 21 Dec 2017 22:11, "Илья Геннадьевич Кузьмин" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi, All!
>
> Considering to current trunk, default macroses for *guillemotright*/*guillemotright
> *characters still don't exist. I looks strange, as far as quotation with
> this characters is a quite common case for european languages. As I could
> see the last discussion on this topic was 11 years ago, but I believe it is
> still
> actual.
>
> What do you think about introducing two standard macros at include/bsf?
>
> def ">>"  { @Char "guillemotright" @OrIfPlain ">>" }
> def "<<"  { @Char "guillemotleft"  @OrIfPlain "<<" }
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Ilya
>
>