On 5/23/12 6:50 PM, reynt0 wrote: > Also, just to mention, best to avoid smart apostrophes/quotes > in the final version, naturally, right?
Not a whelk’s chance in a supernova. Those aren’t smart quotes, they’re perfectly valid UTF-8 typographic marks. "Straight quotes" and 'straight apostrophes' are artifacts of the typewriter era, where there was simply not enough space on the keyboard to provide proper typographic marks. If you read a book, you’ll discover they pay attention to things like ligatures, kerning, proper typographic marks, and all manner of other things. Centuries of use have shown that these marks make text easier to read. The final version that gets submitted to Werner will by necessity be plain text, and that will probably get downshifted into dumb typewriter markings. But so long as I’m going blind on it, reading those rows of text again and again and again, I’m going to pay attention to the typography. I encourage anyone who’s writing web pages to abjure dumb typewriter markings. In the UTF-8 era, there’s absolutely no reason why any of us should have to put up with them. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
