Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:57:24 +0100 From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> To: doc@FreeBSD.org, World Wide Web Owner <www@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Old style quotation [Was:Re: cvs commit: www/en/platforms amd64.sgml] Message-ID: <475A94B4.4060606@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200712081213.lB8CDQAB044237@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200712081213.lB8CDQAB044237@repoman.freebsd.org>
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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. -- Gabor Kovesdan FreeBSD Volunteer EMAIL: gabor@FreeBSD.org .:|:. gabor@kovesdan.org WEB: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gabor .:|:. http://kovesdan.org
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