Barry Margolin <[email protected]> writes: >> > Now, I was wondering what could be the reason behind this convention. >> > Why not use just straight quotes also in front of the quoted word? >> >> It's an attempt to emulate proper left and right single quotation marks >> in ASCII. I don't like it. > > Neither do I. The problem is that in most computer fonts, ` and ' are > not mirror images of each other. ` is angled, but ' is usually vertical.
I know, lots of tech folk love to obsess over minutia, but given the problems created by using unicode quotes, and the usefulness of balanced delimiters (even if they're sometimes a little ugly), I find it amazing that people go to such great lengths to try (emphasis here...) and "fix" this. -Miles -- "Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder." -- Homer Simpson _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
