On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, David Starner wrote:
> ...People will use whatever orthographies they want. Make it
> reasonable and feasible for people to do the right thing, and let time
> and social pressure move them in the right direction. Look at where
> we've gone on the whole `quote' issue.
I actually see very little sign of progress on that. So long as people
are encouraged to believe that the vertical-double-quote symbol is the
proper way to quote things, that's what they'll use. Only if they
actually start getting balanced quotes in their output -- even if the
balance is sometimes wrong -- will they start paying attention. I've
been fighting this particular battle with real users for 20+ years now.
> Hopefully in another 10 years,
> a lot of people will be using curved quotes - another thing it's bloody
> impossible to get from the keyboard.
It's been possible to get them in troff for going on a quarter of a
century now, using plain ASCII as input, and I believe TeX is the same
way (although my memory could be wrong on that). You type `` and '',
and the software knows what that means.
Henry Spencer
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