typography of the apostrophe

[A. Pagaltzis]

* Brian Forte <bforte at adelaide.on.net> [2005-10-19 03:20]:

> In the US, most style guides stipulate the double-quote (")

> character for direct speech and the single-quote character for

> indirect speech (ie a speaking character quoting another person

> to a third-party). In the UK and Australia, the reverse is

> true.


Ah; well, SmartyPants (not Markdown) already deals very badly
(ie not at all) with non-English typographic conventions like the
German or French styles.

I *think* John said that was one of the things he wanted to
support at one point; the mechanism which will inevitably be
necessary to support that could well be used to make a US vs
UK/Aus distinction as well.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>