Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:37:50 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Old style quotation [Was:Re: cvs commit: www/en/platforms amd64.sgml] Message-ID: <20071212013750.034d685b.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <475A94B4.4060606@FreeBSD.org> References: <200712081213.lB8CDQAB044237@repoman.freebsd.org> <475A94B4.4060606@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:57:24 +0100 Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org> wrote: > Chin-San Huang escribió: > > chinsan 2007-12-08 12:13:26 UTC > > > > FreeBSD doc repository > > > > Modified files: > > en/platforms amd64.sgml > > Log: > > - Revert the correct American English style. > > ( ``Hammer''. -> ``Hammer.'' ) > > > This change made me remember of a thing that I've wanted to discuss. As > a tradition, we use `` and '' character pairs to quote text. This seems > to be strange for people that don't know this tradition and there's no > technical reason to go on doing this, we can just use " ", which seems > to be better formatted according to the current style conventions used > on the web. Is there any objection against that I change them to normal > quotation marks? We already use those in the Hungarian and Spanish web > translations without any problems and the text in the <quote> element in > DocBook also have normal quotation marks in the generated output. I asked this very question a long time ago, something with layout in the ISO key set (I think). You can search the archives, it was about or around 5 years ago (again, I think). -- Tom Rhodeshelp
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