Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:01:24 +0100 From: Martin Karlsson <mk-freebsd@bredband.net> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: quotation marks in HTML output Message-ID: <20030327180123.GB610@c-6d3a70d5.bredbandsbolaget.se> In-Reply-To: <20030326185416.GH18515@gothmog.gr> References: <20030326050104.GA1514@c-303a70d5.bredbandsbolaget.se> <20030326185416.GH18515@gothmog.gr>
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* Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> [2003-03-26 20.54 +0200]: > It's a long standing typographical convention, which I do prefer in > all printed material, given the proper fonts and letter-form. Alas, > today, most of the fonts that people use have these ugly, stupid marks > that look bizarre instead of proper back-quotes and short, thin, > vertical lines instead of proper right quotes. Aah, now I get it; it's been a long time since I saw proper print quotation marks (or at least a long time since I noted the difference), that I seem to have managed to forget about them. > This makes ``example'' look terrible. Most notably, in HTML browsers, > the right part looks some times like ``example" which is hurting my > eyes and looks very unpleasant. Yes, it does look rather unpleasant. > For these reasons, I'd probably support switching to double quotes > like "...." for HTML output. But only for HTML output. I agree. Thanks for explaining, Giorgos! -- Martin Karlsson
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