typography of the apostrophe

[Michel Fortin]

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
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