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Haakin · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:14 pm Post subject: ` != '

Hi,

Probably this is a pedantic post...

On the introduction of LXF 156, now on LXF's homepage, there are several grave accent (`) used as apostrophe ('). Frankly, it looks quite bad. Could you correct that?

Thanks,

Javier
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heiowge · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:31 pm Post subject:

They'll have to get out the tip-ex and recall them all! Laughing

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johnhudson · LXF regular Joined: Wed Aug 03, 2005 2:37 pm Posts: 767

The problem arises because some software has - since ASCII days - interpreted the grave as an opening single quote (a character that does not appear in the ASCII sequence because using opening single quotes is an English, not a US, habit). So if the same text is copied to a piece of software that interprets the grave literally, you get this result.

I have found that LyX/LaTeX users can avoid this by exporting via HTML which converts all the grave accents in LaTeX to opening single quotes.