At 1:29 pm -0800 3/11/02, Doug Ewell wrote:
It's a very good idea if you consider that it enables us-ascii text to be easily converted to nicely formatted text containing curly quotes pointing in the right directions, which is the reason for the convention.Mark Davis <mark dot davis at jtcsv dot com> wrote:First, the ` is not a quote mark: it is a grave accent/ Second, it also doesn/t say that you can/t use a slash/ say/ instead of a comma/ apostrophe/ or period/ But that doesn/t mean it/s a good idea/It's a terrible idea. I hate ``this quoting convention" (or alternatively ``this one'') as much as anyone.
JD
