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Subject: Re: docs/78240: Replace <literal> with <quote> around a #
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 06:55:53PM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > > >  I'm not sure there is a rule for a single character.
> > > 
> > > If you want to stress the importance or abnormal appearance of
> > > a character, then quote is good.
> > > 
> > > I'm also debating the usefulness of this patch.
> > >
> > 
> > Really?
>

[I was joking with the "really" :)
anyway, my jokes are weird at 1am :) ]

> Yep.  I mean, we use literal everywhere else.  There shouldn't
> really be a reason to quote the specific character.
> 
> In all honesty, I guess it depends on how you look at it.
> 

In fact I was wondering about a typographic rule, I was wondering if
people used to put quotes cause they could not "emphasize" the character
via any rendering.
I just looked at a (french) typographic book, it seems (nothing is
stated) they use quotes for a single character, on another typographic
book no quotes...  I will reread them on tomorrow morning.

Marc