>It may happen that they are entered that way; but that’s for historical
>reasons, not because it would make a better system. The single quotes
>are the worst; how do you reliably convert “wait 'till they are clear,
>and run them 'thro a strainer”? I’ve seen a number of errors from
>Microsoft systems automatically doing the conversion, and it’s too
>closely related to the hard AI problem for me to think we’ll do much
>better.
My thinking was that they were strictly stylistic, and not something
youd ever want in plain text. When going through school, quotes where
never taught as having significance in their slant or stroke direction.
Also, when writing, I invariably write them as strict vertical lines.
Perhaps this is different in the UK? (I was under the impression that
’ and ` were non-english accent marks or something....)
I mean, I can imagine having control over it, so that you could use them
if you really want to. I just didnt think they deserved a whole key on
the
keyboard, thats all. Just like you dont have an "italics shift" key or
a "bold shift". Could you imagine a keyboard with MINUS, HYPHEN, EMDASH,
and
ENDASH keys?
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