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Re: [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses)
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Alejandro López-Valencia |
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Re: [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses) |
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Fri, 26 Jul 2002 07:17:52 -0500 |
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tadziu Hoffmann" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 3:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses)
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> I daily see texts written with Word where Microsoft's "smart"
> quotes have backfired -- and the users are too stupid to either
> see the error or to correct it.
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And even if one wants to correct it, it can be an impossible task. Namely,
in Spanish, the correct quote characters are « and » (U+00AB ==
guillemotleft and U+00BB == guillemotright), yet the smart quote "feature"
makes it impossible to do a search and replace on " and " (U+201C and
U+201D) to replace them for the correct typographical glyphs, not even when
turning the "smart quoting" misfeature off.
- [Groff] meta macro package, David Given, 2002/07/12
- Re: [Groff] meta macro package, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/07/12
- Re: [Groff] meta macro package, David Given, 2002/07/12
- Re: [Groff] meta macro package, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/07/13
- [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses), David Given, 2002/07/24
- Re: [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses), Larry Jones, 2002/07/24
- Re: [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses), Werner LEMBERG, 2002/07/24
- Re: [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses), Tadziu Hoffmann, 2002/07/25
- Re: [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses),
Alejandro López-Valencia <=
- Re: [Groff] Smart quotes (and other excesses), Larry Jones, 2002/07/26