Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 01:23:12 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/78240: Replace <literal> with <quote> around a # Message-ID: <20050303012312.75c8a02d@mobile.pittgoth.com> In-Reply-To: <20050302222722.GA99638@abigail.blackend.org> References: <200503011340.j21DeKHe048812@freefall.freebsd.org> <20050301182651.2b8ce710@mobile.pittgoth.com> <20050301234702.GC50779@abigail.blackend.org> <20050301185553.36c14c16@mobile.pittgoth.com> <20050302002124.GD50779@abigail.blackend.org> <20050302222722.GA99638@abigail.blackend.org>
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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 23:27:23 +0100 Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:21:24AM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > >=20 > > > Yep. I mean, we use literal everywhere else. There shouldn't > > > really be a reason to quote the specific character. > > >=20 > > > In all honesty, I guess it depends on how you look at it. > > >=20 > >=20 > > 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. > > >=20 > Ok, here's the usage I found in the French "Imprimerie Nationale" rules > ("Lexique des r=E8gles typographiques" ISBN 2-7433-0482-0): >=20 > - most of time use of italic for a character > - sometimes use of quotes (in fact for more than 1 character) >=20 > I looked for American typography usage but on Internet it's not easy to > find reliable information. If someone owns the book "The Elements of > Typographic Style" by Robert Bringhurst (ISBN: 0881791326)... >=20 > In fact it's often obvious that on a printed version using a specific > rendering (italic, tt, etc.) is better for the reader, on an online > version this may be different. > I wanted to see what do O'Reilly, so I looked at at "DNS and BIND" (4th > Ed.) expecting to find an answer, but I was disappointed they were not > really consistent. Most of time they use italic (for a word or a term > it's always italic). For a single character they use both italic and > quotes, in fact it seems they use quotes when the italic version of the > character does not exist or is "ugly"? For example they used ``@'' and > <italic>&</italic> (but also <italic>*</italic>). >=20 > Well to sum up, I did not find a good answer. Let's just wrap it in <emphasis> and have done with it? --=20 Tom Rhodes
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