RE: Exemplifying apostrophes

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri May 23 2008 - 02:07:30 CDT

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    At 08:34 +0200 2008-05-23, Andrea Cantinotti wrote:
    >As a young french (and I think it's true for the "Microsoft Word
    >generation"), I do not put a typografical space before ";". Because
    >of the software (Word do it for you, and afterthat, you have'nt any
    >habitude to type it). In my mails, there isn't any space before it.
    >It is true for my generation, but the older generation type a space
    >before ";" even in e-mails.

    Very interesting!

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    Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
    


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