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Re: ` != '

johnhudson — Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:24 am

Author: johnhudson

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:24 am

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.

Re: ` != '

heiowge — Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:31 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:31 pm

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

` != '

Haakin — Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:14 pm

Author: Haakin

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:14 pm

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