typography of the apostrophe

Michel Fortin michel.fortin at michelf.com
Thu Oct 20 15:25:03 EDT 2005


Le 2005-10-20 à 13:43, Damian Cugley a écrit :


> Anyway, none of the above is germaine to Smartypants. My

> recommendation--for what it's worth--is that Smartypants should

> stick to the fairly simple and comprehensible system it is at

> present. The exceptions are rare enough that leaving autors to

> write ‘n' on occasion should be acceptable. Trying to add

> language-specific cleverness is openning a can of worms; see the

> attempts to get HTML 4's rash promises of language-sensitive

> quotation marks in Mozilla for an example <https://

> bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16206>


I agree with what you say. I'll just add that I almost never write
entities nowadays, I type directly the characters that I want: with
unicode on my website, I see little reason not to.

Your bugzilla reference gives me an idea: maybe Markdown could create
`<q>` tags on the fly when it encounters quotes... Ok, just kidding!


Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
http://www.michelf.com/




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