Re: [icon-users] Smart quotes.

  • From: Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:25:45 +0100

Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <380-2201323270579452@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>    stewy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <stewy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > If you press the ' key three times in rapid succession, then you get an
> > unsexed quote even with smart quotes switched on.
> 
> > One press gives you a smart quote. The second gives you a double smart
> > quote. The third gives you an unsexed quote.
> 
> Care is required here. With EasiWriter's default triple pressing the [ ` ]
> key (equivalent to Smart-quote-open) will give you [ ` ] not [ ' ].

True, but it should not be too surprising that you get [ ` ] when you press
the [ ` ] key. If you press the [ ' ] key three times, which is the much
more logical choice, you do get [ ' ].

Martin
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