From: Ben Finney <ben+emacs@benfinney.id.au>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dumbquotes in exported source listings
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 07:40:08 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oc3mgkw7.fsf@benfinney.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 80bozmkw0n.fsf@somewhere.org
Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com>
writes:
> Nick Dokos wrote:
> > Ben Finney <ben+emacs@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> >> Nowadays with Unicode available ubiquitously we can simply use the
> >> correct typographical quotation marks directly in the plain text
> >> file, but TeX and some other legacy systems don't work very well
> >> with Unicode.
>
> I really hate those "smart quotes", better named "dumb quotes",
Again, that's just confusing the terminology, since both “smart quotes”
and “dumb quotes” already have connotations. If you want a neutral term
for the typographically-correct quotation marks, try “directional
quotes”.
Here is a discussion of the history of the “`” and “'” usage and why
it's a problem <URL:http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html>.
--
\ “Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, |
`\ give it to the guard on duty.” —zoo, Budapest |
_o__) |
Ben Finney
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-01 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-30 23:39 Dumbquotes in exported source listings Avdi Grimm
2011-05-01 3:13 ` Ben Finney
2011-05-01 16:41 ` Avdi Grimm
2011-05-01 19:08 ` Nick Dokos
2011-05-01 20:26 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-05-01 21:31 ` Nick Dokos
2011-05-01 21:40 ` Ben Finney [this message]
2011-05-01 21:27 ` Ben Finney
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2011-04-27 20:57 Missing Introduction and About sections in LaTeX export Avdi Grimm
[not found] ` <groups@inbox.avdi.org>
2011-04-27 21:41 ` Nick Dokos
2011-04-27 21:47 ` Avdi Grimm
2011-04-27 22:23 ` Nick Dokos
2011-04-28 7:55 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-04-28 11:36 ` Nick Dokos
2011-05-01 19:04 ` Dumbquotes in exported source listings Nick Dokos
2011-04-27 22:21 ` Missing Introduction and About sections in LaTeX export Avdi Grimm
2011-04-28 11:06 ` Eric S Fraga
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