Quotes point the wrong way in text-within-math about typst HOT 9 CLOSED

This is yet another result of #366

When typesetting text in math, you should explicitly switch to the text font.

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Thanks @Enivex , but I don't see how this is at all related to fonts. A double quote on its own is ambiguous, and correct rendering depends on the context to determine which way the quotes should "point". As I understand, #[...] does explicitly switch to text font.

Just to be clear, OP is just a minimal example, the real use case is something like the quotes in this:

The only way I could get these quotes correct was to use quote.l.double and quote.r.double, which is extremely clunky.

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. As I understand, #[...] does explicitly switch to text font.

No, this is incorrect. As long as you're inside an equation the math font is used. Which isn't really intended for typesetting text, and therefore will cause issues like this.

@cscherrer my suggestion for the time being is to define something like #let mtext = text.with(font: "text font name here”) and then use $ 1 + 1 = 2 quad (#mtext["Profound" equation]) $

This will change, but the design hasn't been decided on yet.

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Thanks for the suggestion! That gets pretty close, but I'd like to keep the same font. If I do #context text.font it says new computer modern. Then if I do

#let mtext = text.with(font: "new computer modern")

$
1 + 1 &= 2 quad (#mtext["Profound" equation]) \
1 + 1 &= 2 quad (#text["Profound" equation]) 
$

I get

The first looks pretty good. I guess the last step is, instead of querying the font and then typing it in, how can I automate this? I tried

#let mtext = text.with(font: text.font)

but that gives an error.

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The first looks pretty good. I guess the last step is, instead of querying the font and then typing it in, how can I automate this? I tried

#let mtext = text.with(font: text.font)

but that gives an error.

Unfortunately this is not possible, even adding the context keyword, because the font in the context where function would be used would be the math font. You have to hard code it.

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That very surprising that you can't just cast an observation from some context into a fixed variable, but I'll take your word for it. Thanks for the help :)

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There might be a misunderstanding. You can store an observation from a context into a fixed variable. But in this case, there is no good place to put the context (at least not automatically) because the font is already configured in the context passed to the equation show rule.

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Ok, if I put #context text.font in body of my paper, it renders as "new computer modern". How would I instead put that in a fixed variable, say myfont? Then I could follow it with

#let mtext = text.with(font: myfont)

Then I think calling mtext from inside math mode would solve it. I don't need the context placed automatically.

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Ah, no, it doesn't work directly like that, I might have bee the that misunderstood. Everything depending on the context does need to be within the context. But if you have multiple nested contexts, then you can still save the observation from one and access it in the other:

#context {
  let fill = text.fill
  set text(fill: blue)
  context {
    let fill2 = text.fill
    [fill is #fill and fill2 is #fill2]
  }
}

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