From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Mar 25 21: 5: 2 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8469F37B408 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:04:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5C443F93 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:04:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mobile.pittgoth.com ([192.168.0.5]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with SMTP id h2Q54rBG047849; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 00:04:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 00:03:34 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: Martin Karlsson Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: quotation marks in HTML output Message-Id: <20030326000334.4dd727b0.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030326050104.GA1514@c-303a70d5.bredbandsbolaget.se> References: <20030326050104.GA1514@c-303a70d5.bredbandsbolaget.se> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-19.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 06:01:04 +0100 Martin Karlsson wrote: > Hi list, > > Just out of curiosity: Why do quotation marks, in the HTML docs, appear > as ``example'' instead of "example"? More specifically, why does the > style-sheet /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/freebsd.dsl convert[1] > example to ``example'' and not to "example"? > > Searching the archives, I found a thread from Feb 2002, > > Message-ID:<3C652A94.2070906@pittgoth.com> > URL: > > , in which this was discussed, but not resolved. Is this a > typographic convention, or simply a FreeBSD-doc-ism? > Wow! Thats my email your pointing out. Thats neat, in a wierd sort of way... -- Tom Rhodes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message