Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 22:13:14 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <20000605221314.B4925@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <20000603111107.B30249@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:11:07AM %2B0930 References: <006d01bfcc13$1b573c10$2969a0d0@leviathan> <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost> <8h8snk$1irg$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de> <20000603111107.B30249@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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[ Also sent to -doc -- for their benefit, this cropped up in a discussion on
punctuation on the docs which appears to have kicked off in -chat ]
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:11:07AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >From each other? So you can differntiate between open and close.
> German has the same concept, except that the opening quotes are (used
> to be, anyway) at the bottom of the line: ,,Lass' es sein'', sagte er.
FWIW, soemething on my list of things to do sometime is go through the
docs the doc/ tree, and replace instances of
“ ... ”
with
<quote> ... </quote>
The stylesheets can then turn these into quotes more appropriate for the
language concerned.
N
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