On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 08:39 -0800, JJZolx wrote:
> jonheal Wrote:
> > I have replaced all of the straight quote marks in my ID3 tags with
> > proper curly quotes.
> What do you mean by "proper" curly quotes? What was wrong with the
> standard quote mark?
What do you mean standard quote marks? The usual computer
keyboard/display marks used for quotes (" and ') are actually
the feet and inch marks. They are not quotes in English. which are
supposed to curl towards the quoted text. The French use << and >> for
the same thing. Look at any newspaper or magazine, they do it
properly.
On typewriters and 1960s vintage computers, there wasn't room or
technology for proper quotation marks, so people learned to live
with ugly and improper inch and feet marks. But it is so wrong.
And now that all computers have bit mapped displays, there is no
reason for being typographically illiterate.
Proper quotes are only the beginnings. We have to stop out the
totally wrong style of putting two spaces after periods (full stops
to our Bristish friends). We have to stop using a hyphen when
we mean em-dash.
And we have to stop using Times Roman, an ugly, smashed up
and totally not posh font.
--
Pat
http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
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