Entering quotation marks (derives from Re: proposal for a "Standard-Exit" or "Namespace" character)

From: William_J_G Overington (wjgo_10009@btinternet.com)
Date: Tue Apr 14 2009 - 02:11:42 CDT

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    David Starner wrote:

    [snip]

    > At the least, extended character sets are notoriously hard to input; people that traditionally used Latin-1 still often use -- emdashes and ' and " quotes in Unicode texts, because the correct characters are hard to type.

    Indeed.

    The following might be of interest to some readers.

    http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/typecase_quotation_marks.pdf

    One simply does a copy from the pdf to the clipboard of the character that it is desired to use and then a paste to the document that is being prepared and then one formats to the desired font and point size.

    William Overington

    14 April 2009

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