Old style quotation [Was:Re: cvs commit: www/en/platforms amd64.sgml]

[Tom Rhodes]

On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:57:24 +0100
Gabor Kovesdan <gabor at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Chin-San Huang escribió:
> > chinsan     2007-12-08 12:13:26 UTC
> >
> >   FreeBSD doc repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     en/platforms         amd64.sgml 
> >   Log:
> >   - Revert the correct American English style.
> >     ( ``Hammer''. -> ``Hammer.'' )
> >   
> This change made me remember of a thing that I've wanted to discuss. As 
> a tradition, we use `` and '' character pairs to quote text. This seems 
> to be strange for people that don't know this tradition and there's no 
> technical reason to go on doing this, we can just use " ", which seems 
> to be better formatted according to the current style conventions used 
> on the web. Is there any objection against that I change them to normal 
> quotation marks? We already use those in the Hungarian and Spanish web 
> translations without any problems and the text in the <quote> element in 
> DocBook also have normal quotation marks in the generated output.

I asked this very question a long time ago, something with layout
in the ISO key set (I think).  You can search the archives, it was
about or around 5 years ago (again, I think).

-- 
Tom Rhodes