Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This has been discussed on dle and we finally settled that the use of > single quote is what's the closest to the official English > typography's quotes. [...]
I was not part of that discussion. What subject was that under? I found a small mention of it in Bug #426491 and some discussion in ocsinventory-agent's 2007-04-* thread, but nothing about a supposed official English typography. I'm *very* suspicious of things claiming official English status - we don't have an Academie Anglaise and that tactic seems similar to Death By Dictionary. Standards by different people simply do different things about quotation marks (compare Fowler, Strunk, Columbia, Wired), as do various historic publications (compare Shakespeare with the Bible). FWIW, I have a fairly stong preference for ""s instead of ''s when there's no computing or nesting reason not to. > Well, I don't exactly agree here. Using or not using double spaces > after periods is a matter of general style and consistency among > packages, so this is why we include such changes. [...] I think I remember having complaints about early email-submitted copy to both How-To books and GNU/Linux User and Developer when I used double-spaces. I still type them instinctively (I learned on typewriter-style word processors), but it seemed not to be the done thing for computer-based text. Myself, I'd not take a strong line either way after full stops. Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Experienced webmaster-developers for hire http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Also: statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, workers co-op. Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
