From: John Delacour (JD@Eremita.demon.co.uk)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 04:26:59 EST
At 1:29 pm -0800 3/11/02, Doug Ewell wrote:
>Mark Davis <mark dot davis at jtcsv dot com> wrote:
>
>> First, the ` is not a quote mark: it is a grave accent/ Second, it
>> also doesn/t say that you can/t use a slash/ say/ instead of a comma/
>> apostrophe/ or period/ But that doesn/t mean it/s a good idea/
>
>It's a terrible idea. I hate ``this quoting convention" (or
>alternatively ``this one'') as much as anyone.
It's a very good idea if you consider that it enables us-ascii text
to be easily converted to nicely formatted text containing curly
quotes pointing in the right directions, which is the reason for the
convention.
JD
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