| In a message dated 6/14/2001 12:46:20 AM Central Daylight Time,
rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org writes: > and all the rest of the useful critters an ordinary word processor Hey, an "ordinary word processor" is a word processor ordinary people ordinarily use, which amounts MSWord. It does what ordinary people want it to do with a minimal amount of fuss (most of the time -- with glaring exceptions, of course). If HTML (which is inherently wrongheaded for ordinary people and will presumably clean up its act like every other mark-up language has -- or they died) is meant to be used by oridnary people, not merely initiates, then if will learn to do these things too -- and soon. It is half-way there: they can be done; it needs to go the rest of the way: in one or two key-strokes to show on the page and not need memorizing a table. <Are you clear on the concept of 7-bit ASCII? If not, I suggest you remove yourself from this argument. -Robin, who's been on the 'net since Gopher was king and is sick of you whiny M$ lusers. He's also in a bad mood. Yep! And I am also clear that it is about as relevant to the present situation as the body odor of a Tyranosaurus. I'm not whining, just reminding all you "Let's get more people into Lojban" types what those more people require. pc, who was formatting printing in Fortran 1 when Kennedy was President. <A one character tab! What the hell are you talking about?> One keystroke to set in a fixed number of <Because they're not quotes!! The quotes is ". ASCII 34. Smart quotes are neither smart (they do amazingly strange things if you have more than 2 of them in a sentence) nor quotes (they're ASCII 0240 or something like that).> Quotes are what they do. ASCII 34 is a double apostrophe, usable for quotes, if need be, also for seconds and Lord knows what else. ldquo and rdquo (8220, 8221) are specifically quotes -- not seconds, etc. and are clearly acceptable for printed work, as 34 barely is. |