Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 01:23:12 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/78240: Replace <literal> with <quote> around a # Message-ID: <20050303012312.75c8a02d@mobile.pittgoth.com> In-Reply-To: <20050302222722.GA99638@abigail.blackend.org> References: <200503011340.j21DeKHe048812@freefall.freebsd.org> <20050301182651.2b8ce710@mobile.pittgoth.com> <20050301234702.GC50779@abigail.blackend.org> <20050301185553.36c14c16@mobile.pittgoth.com> <20050302002124.GD50779@abigail.blackend.org> <20050302222722.GA99638@abigail.blackend.org>
index | next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 23:27:23 +0100
Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:21:24AM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> >
> > > Yep. I mean, we use literal everywhere else. There shouldn't
> > > really be a reason to quote the specific character.
> > >
> > > In all honesty, I guess it depends on how you look at it.
> > >
> >
> > In fact I was wondering about a typographic rule, I was wondering if
> > people used to put quotes cause they could not "emphasize" the character
> > via any rendering.
> > I just looked at a (french) typographic book, it seems (nothing is
> > stated) they use quotes for a single character, on another typographic
> > book no quotes... I will reread them on tomorrow morning.
> >
>
> Ok, here's the usage I found in the French "Imprimerie Nationale" rules
> ("Lexique des règles typographiques" ISBN 2-7433-0482-0):
>
> - most of time use of italic for a character
> - sometimes use of quotes (in fact for more than 1 character)
>
> I looked for American typography usage but on Internet it's not easy to
> find reliable information. If someone owns the book "The Elements of
> Typographic Style" by Robert Bringhurst (ISBN: 0881791326)...
>
> In fact it's often obvious that on a printed version using a specific
> rendering (italic, tt, etc.) is better for the reader, on an online
> version this may be different.
> I wanted to see what do O'Reilly, so I looked at at "DNS and BIND" (4th
> Ed.) expecting to find an answer, but I was disappointed they were not
> really consistent. Most of time they use italic (for a word or a term
> it's always italic). For a single character they use both italic and
> quotes, in fact it seems they use quotes when the italic version of the
> character does not exist or is "ugly"? For example they used ``@'' and
> <italic>&</italic> (but also <italic>*</italic>).
>
> Well to sum up, I did not find a good answer.
Let's just wrap it in <emphasis> and have done with it?
--
Tom Rhodes
help
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050303012312.75c8a02d>