Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:54:16 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: Martin Karlsson <mk-freebsd@bredband.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: quotation marks in HTML output Message-ID: <20030326185416.GH18515@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20030326050104.GA1514@c-303a70d5.bredbandsbolaget.se> References: <20030326050104.GA1514@c-303a70d5.bredbandsbolaget.se>
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On 2003-03-26 06:01, Martin Karlsson <mk-freebsd@bredband.net> wrote: > 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] > <quote>example</quote> to ``example'' and not to "example"? > > Searching the archives, I found a thread from Feb 2002, > > Message-ID:<3C652A94.2070906@pittgoth.com> > URL: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=546854+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-doc/20020210.freebsd-doc > > in which this was discussed, but not resolved. Is this a typographic > convention, or simply a FreeBSD-doc-ism? It's a long standing typographical convention, which I do prefer in all printed material, given the proper fonts and letter-form. Alas, today, most of the fonts that people use have these ugly, stupid marks that look bizarre instead of proper back-quotes and short, thin, vertical lines instead of proper right quotes. This makes ``example'' look terrible. Most notably, in HTML browsers, the right part looks some times like ``example" which is hurting my eyes and looks very unpleasant. For these reasons, I'd probably support switching to double quotes like "...." for HTML output. But only for HTML output. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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