Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/17/06, Andrew Dunbar hippytrail@gmail.com wrote:
99% clear so thanks very much. My advice then is to adpot a policy of "use straight apostrophes for markup and curly apostrophes for words". Where d''o and d''a will break formatting or require ugly workarounds, d''o and d''a will always "just work". (And look better too).
That would be practical if keyboards had a "curly apostrophe" key. How do you propose that editors type it?
Steve _______________________________________________
Use backquotes instead? eg. d``a, d``o, in which `` gets treated as a magic word (like RFC or ISBN) which is automagically, and transparently, converted to d""a and d""o within the parser at an early stage during page rendering?
Kludgy, yes, but backquote is a standard ASCII character, and at least on my keyboard, is easily accessible.
-- Neil