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@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ between the letters (otherwise known as the tracking). As a general
rule, this is a very bad idea: it detracts from legibility, which is
contrary to the principles of typesetting (any respectable font you
might be using should already have optimum tracking built into it).
-<p/>The great type designer, Eric Gill, is credited with saying &ldquo;he who
-would letterspace lower-case text, would steal sheep&rdquo;. (The
+<p/>The great type designer, Eric Gill, is credited with saying &#8220;he who
+would letterspace lower-case text, would steal sheep&#8221;. (The
attribution is probably apocryphal: others are also credited with the
remark. Stealing sheep was, in the 19th century, a capital offence in
Britain.) As the remark suggests, though, letterspacing of upper-case
@@ -23,14 +23,14 @@ the <code>.tex</code> file).
<p/>A more comprehensive solution is to be found in the <i>soul</i>
package (which is optimised for use with LaTeX, but also works with
Plain TeX). Soul also permits hyphenation of letterspaced text;
-Gill&rsquo;s view of such an activity is not (even apocryphally) recorded.
+Gill&#8217;s view of such an activity is not (even apocryphally) recorded.
(Spacing-out forms part of the name of <i>soul</i>; the other half
is described in <a href="FAQ-underline.html">another question</a>.)
-<p/>Possibly the &lsquo;ultimate&rsquo; in this field is the <i>microtype</i>,
+<p/>Possibly the &#8216;ultimate&#8217; in this field is the <i>microtype</i>,
which uses the micro-typography capabilities of current PDFTeX to
provide a <code>\</code><code>textls</code> command, which operates according to parameters
-declared in a <code>\</code><code>SetTracking</code> command. <i>Microtype</i>&rsquo;s
-&lsquo;tracking&rsquo; facility expands the natural spacing font itself, rather
+declared in a <code>\</code><code>SetTracking</code> command. <i>Microtype</i>&#8217;s
+&#8216;tracking&#8217; facility expands the natural spacing font itself, rather
than inserting space between characters. Ordinarily, letter-spacing
will destroy ligatures; however, this is <em>wrong</em> if the font is
of a fraktur style, and the package provides a means of protecting the