Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 08/22/2015 03:19 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Although it may not be ideal, neutral quotes are adequate typography
> here,

Have you seen typographical guides allow using different kinds of single 
quotes in the same document? Using both kinds seems to violate 
typographical style, as well as GNU guidelines, mentioned recently, that 
mandate using appropriate quotes based on user's locale.

> and are certainly better than transforming all four quotes into
> right single quotation marks.

It's better than two right quotation marks, but worse than using one 
left and one right. So we don't need to optimize the workflow (rules, 
translation, electric modes, etc) for the given example.

> And although Emacs diagnostics use
> directed quotes to quote symbols and other code, the situation is not as
> clear for quoting other things so I have been conservative and have
> generally left these other quotes alone if they are neutral.  It'd be
> fine with me if you were bolder and changed them to be directed.

I'd rather not become complicit in this sprawling empire of quotes, yet.

Just pointing out another inconsistency. This time it's you 
contemplating using different quotes for quoting different things.

Whereas it all started with "let's have good typography". The mistake, 
as I see it, is trying to use "real" quotes for markup in the first place.