not-so-smart quotes
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- paraselene
magic props to the first person who refreshes my ailing memory and tells me the hot keys to force smart quotes on a mac!
- MX_OnD0
not-so-smart quotes
magic props to the first person who refreshes my ailing memory and tells me the hot keys to force smart quotes on a mac!
paraselene
(Mar 15 05, 04:57)smart quotes are whit ye get in the anthology. disnae matter if yer oan a Mac or a PC, ken?
- afriend0
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- Bottlerocket0
" " - Marcel Marceau
- paraselene0
afriend:
ta very much, like.
mx + bottle rocket:
laugh? i nearly cried.
- chossy0
what in the blazes is 'smart quotes?.
- hiroshima0
"we're like two ships that passed in the night"
- paraselene0
aka "curly quotes", chossy. y'know whaddamean?
- MX_OnD0
aka "curly quotes", chossy. y'know whaddamean?
paraselene
(Mar 15 05, 05:35)*braces himself for the deluge of quotes from chossy's mate Curly.
- chossy0
Still in the dark here I'm afraid and a little hungry, I know what quotation marks are but to what program are you referring to?. A word processing one or somesuch?.
- paraselene0
when you type a quotation mark, sometimes it looks like a straight dagger, and sometimes it looks like a proper inverted comma (with a head and a tail, like a little curled up spermatazoa).
dagger quotes (or straight quotes) are generally frowned upon and are to be avoided.
curly quotes (or smart quotes) are the industry preference. there are hot keys that allow you to force your quotation marks to appear as smart quotes. as far as i know, these hot keys work in quark, photoshop and most html editors.
i've been working in an html editor today (oh the horror!) and my quotes were all appearing as daggers. normally i don't have to worry about it because photoshop and quark generally default to curly quotes, but dreamweaver isn't nearly so clever. i knew there were hot keys, but had forgotten what they were. hence, i came to good ol' nt for some guidance.
clearer?
- MX_OnD0
Aww no! Yer seein' daggers...
*runs awa.
- hiroshima0
"is this a dagger i see before me? the handle towards my hand..."
- paraselene0
Aww no! Yer seein' daggers...
*runs awa.
MX_OnD(Mar 15 05, 06:53)
just be glad i ain't seein' axes, boy.
- MX_OnD0
*goes to the hardware shop
*buys their entire stock of metallic dustbins
*retires to the garage to attempt A-Team meets McGyver suit of armour
- chossy0
thank you paraselene now can you help me find a bride.
* phones MX and says he's distracted the paraselene and we can take her down easily with the mighty bin machine.
- paraselene0
*goes to the hardware shop
*buys their entire stock of metallic dustbins
*retires to the garage to attempt A-Team meets McGyver suit of armour
MX_OnD(Mar 15 05, 06:59)
let me know how you get on with that.
*lounges outside garage door, lightly tapping out 'the girl from ipanema' on axe handle.
- MX_OnD0
*uses up the last of the welding rods to add thistle like thorns to the steel beast
- paraselene0
ha!
come out, come out wherever you are!
- chossy0
* says to MX dude I think I can smell something dark and foreboding eminating form outside the workshop.
- paraselene0
yeah, yeah, whatever. bloody battle ensues, carnage, carnage. i gotta get back to work. see you kids later.
i'll look into that bride thing for you too, choss.