Comments on: Quotes and backticks

By: Michael Croes

Michael Croes — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:52:47 +0000

Bugger, LaTeX actually does *not* support the use of the correct characters (will get hidden)…

By: Michael Croes

Michael Croes — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:50:32 +0000

LaTeX will happily display your undesired quotes in a desired way, and how the hell do I actually type unicode characters in Linux anyway? I never needed more than my compose key can handle… Actually, [compose], ['], ['] generates “´”, and after 5 minutes of trying I managed to find that [compose], [], ['] generates “’”. Maybe I’ll start using them now

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:16:00 +0000

The prime source of evilness seems to be that it looks `ugly’. Once you’re used to it, it’s not ugly at all.

By: oliver

oliver — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:59:38 +0000

Yup, those weird `quote’ quoting are really annoying – good to know that I’m not alone with that opinion

By: thos

thos — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:10:57 +0000

@Andy, also you seem to have missed the point that ` is NOT a quote mark!

By: thos

thos — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:34:11 +0000

Bikeshed?! It’s a matter of syntax!

By: Andy Wingo

Andy Wingo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:10:33 +0000

Ooh, bikeshed! What about the possibility of ` and ‘ for texts in C, but with localizations to the correct left and right quotes for unicode locales?