From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jun 5 18:10:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90EAB37BEE3; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:10:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA21036; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 01:46:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA05015; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 22:13:14 GMT (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 22:13:14 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Greg Lehey Cc: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <20000605221314.B4925@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <006d01bfcc13$1b573c10$2969a0d0@leviathan> <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost> <8h8snk$1irg$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de> <20000603111107.B30249@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000603111107.B30249@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:11:07AM +0930 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ 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 ... The stylesheets can then turn these into quotes more appropriate for the language concerned. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message