[projectaon] Re: Grand Master comment period
- From: "Paulius Stepanas" <pstepanas@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:40:53 +1000
Great to hear. Mind you, this project seems to be very on top
of these kinds of things, so I'm not surprised. J
Paulius
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On Behalf Of Timothy Pederick
Sent: Sunday, 15 April 2012 2:12
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Subject: [projectaon] Re: Grand Master comment period
On 14 April 2012 23:45, Paulius Stepanas <pstepanas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When typeset for printing (or Web rendering), the closing single
quote character is often used in place of the (straight) apostrophe
character, and it does look better, I think.
However, in unformatted text (such as XML or a .TXT file), the
straight apostrophe should really be used. Angled quotes (both
single and double) in text files tend to be confusing rather
than useful.
The Unicode standard recommends the curved character (U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE
QUOTATION MARK) as "the preferred character to use for
apostrophe" in all cases, and this is the usage that we have followed.
(Personally, I prefer it this way even in plain text, but
that's a matter of taste and custom.)
Actually, in our XML files, we represent the apostrophe with an element, which
is replaced with the chosen character when the XML is
transformed into (say) the HTML editions.
Note that Microsoft Word incorrectly replaces an apostrophe with
a left-curved single quote in words such as: 'cause -- it should
always be the right-curved version. (The easiest way to work
around this is to type two apostrophes and delete the first one.)
Yeah, I hate that. :-) Fortunately our XML-based production methods avoid this
issue entirely.
--
Tim Pederick
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