Re: Apostrophe vs. Single quotation mark

2009-02-27 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Doug Laidlaw wrote: On a keyboard, they are the same character. However, not in LyX. Proper single quotation marks must be inserted via M- (or whatever the function quote-insert single is bound to). Jürgen

Re: Apostrophe vs. Single quotation mark

2009-02-27 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Doug Laidlaw wrote: On a keyboard, they are the same character. However, not in LyX. Proper single quotation marks must be inserted via M- (or whatever the function quote-insert single is bound to). Jürgen

Re: Apostrophe vs. Single quotation mark

2009-02-27 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Doug Laidlaw wrote: > On a keyboard, they are the same character. However, not in LyX. "Proper" single quotation marks must be inserted via M-" (or whatever the function "quote-insert single" is bound to). Jürgen

Re: Apostrophe vs. Single quotation mark

2009-02-23 Thread Doug Laidlaw
On a keyboard, they are the same character. If the code is HTML within your PHP, perhaps you should be using a ***; symbol. Otherwise, I have never known it to matter. Doug. On Tuesday 24 February 2009 9:23:16 am mario m wrote: Hi, I am trying to type some PHP code (within a listing

Re: Apostrophe vs. Single quotation mark

2009-02-23 Thread Doug Laidlaw
Alternatively to what I just wrote (which is still going through the system): There is a distinction between typewriter characters (what you type) and typographical characters (what you see.) On my US keyboard, I have only one key for both opening and closing quotes. Lyx, OpenOffice and

Re: Apostrophe vs. Single quotation mark

2009-02-23 Thread Doug Laidlaw
On a keyboard, they are the same character. If the code is HTML within your PHP, perhaps you should be using a ***; symbol. Otherwise, I have never known it to matter. Doug. On Tuesday 24 February 2009 9:23:16 am mario m wrote: Hi, I am trying to type some PHP code (within a listing

Re: Apostrophe vs. Single quotation mark

2009-02-23 Thread Doug Laidlaw
Alternatively to what I just wrote (which is still going through the system): There is a distinction between typewriter characters (what you type) and typographical characters (what you see.) On my US keyboard, I have only one key for both opening and closing quotes. Lyx, OpenOffice and

Re: Apostrophe vs. Single quotation mark

2009-02-23 Thread Doug Laidlaw
On a keyboard, they are the same character. If the code is HTML within your PHP, perhaps you should be using a &***; symbol. Otherwise, I have never known it to matter. Doug. On Tuesday 24 February 2009 9:23:16 am mario m wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to type some PHP code (within a listing

Re: Apostrophe vs. Single quotation mark

2009-02-23 Thread Doug Laidlaw
Alternatively to what I just wrote (which is still going through the system): There is a distinction between typewriter characters (what you type) and typographical characters (what you see.) On my US keyboard, I have only one key for both opening and closing quotes. Lyx, OpenOffice and