Inverted commas
Twenty years ago, PC word processors struggled with apostrophes and quotation marks. Back then, I was forgiving, but the problem is still ubiquitous. Why? I spent the morning reviewing graduate school applications in which every apostrophe was converted to a question mark. And look at the atrocious quotation marks offered in the otherwise reasonable font selections from blogger.com:
"Verdana"
"Georgia"
"Arial"
"Lucide Grande"
One could infer that the proper rendering of quotation marks is a more difficult problem than, say, the creation of the entire world wide web from scratch.
On a wholly unrelated note, would anyone care to comment on this story?
"Verdana"
"Georgia"
"Arial"
"Lucide Grande"
One could infer that the proper rendering of quotation marks is a more difficult problem than, say, the creation of the entire world wide web from scratch.
On a wholly unrelated note, would anyone care to comment on this story?
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posted by frank b. at
6:41 PM
11 Comments:
Frank, the question mark thing is a total pc to mac (vice versa?) fiasco. It's nothing else. Chalk it up to the machine code. Macs and PCs are fundamentally different.
where does the show go now that it's gotten as self referential as possible? and why's everyone worried about whether mitch makes enough money? he's fine.
I am ready for some big-screen Tambor!
Season 1 was great Two was so so . three was awful. So... if a movie were made and Mitch Hurwitz wrote it and if it were like season three it would be horrible. Logic stands, right?
Back to punctuation: this was at work, so no Macs were involved.
This wikipedia entry has some background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark_glyphs
Under the quotation marks in English section it goes into the gory details.
It does look like, by using the html codes in that chart, one can use curved quotes. It would just be a lot of work.
“Interesting?”
‘No?’
BTW Frank...it was fun recording last night.
OK...one more link:
http://1000timesno.net/?p=261
The author posts the Mac keystrokes necessary for the curved quotes.
True right quotation mark ( ” ): Shift + Option + [
True left quotation mark ( “ ): Option + [
True apostrophe ( ’ ): Shift + Option + ]
True reverse apostrophe ( ‘ ): Option + ]
Do you know why it's happening?
I enjoyed Arrested through its entire run--and though there were weak patches, the Hurwitz-penned episodes were usually pretty strong. And we'd probably get Henry Winkler back on the big screen! And Liza! And Michael Cera's Q rating is through the roof. I'm green-lighting this puppy!
"Hurwitz-penned episodes" is an oxymoron... signed,
The Insider
John, I am not interested in an Arrested Development movie either.
I also think Jason Bateman and Michael Cera have both carved out very nice movie careers since the show ended, so I'm not sure how much of a forward step revisiting their old roles would be.
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