In article <[email protected]>, Miles Bader <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. I certainly am not suggesting that Unicode quotes should be used instead. I recommend "foo" or 'foo' rather than `foo'. -- Barry Margolin, [email protected] Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
