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Computer fonts nowadays should be able to change ." and ". so the . is under the " and ditto ," and ", so the , is under the "

• bonzoesc 15y ago
  Somebody should totally engineer a font that does that; if Zapfino can have a special ligature for "Zapfino," you could certainly make ones for '".', '",', and '";'. And yes, I just mixed punctuation styles. Period-in-quotes simply looks better.
  • adrianN 15y ago
    I thought the font had a ligature for the string "Zapfino,". That was confusing.
  • EdiX 15y ago
    You should be able to do it in TeX with \kern.
• Silhouette 15y ago
  The technology to do this has been around for some time if you want to. However, this is the first time I recall seeing anyone advocate it for normal usage, and I have never encountered a pro-grade font that is typeset this way by default. Why would you want to remove potentially significant ordering information from punctuation, particularly when multiple punctuation marks in close proximity tend to be confusing enough already?