From: Michael Piotrowski <m.piotrowski@springer.de>
Subject: Re: highlighting and fontification
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:17:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x6emg3kw6j.fsf@ETES1.pip.springer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "12 Sep 1999 01:16:18 -0400"
Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
> European typography puts it outside, "like that". Yet another is that
> American typography uses "double quotation marks" for quotations, while
> European tends to use `single quotation marks'.[2]
To be precise, single quotation marks are British style. German
quotation marks are like ,,this`` or like »this«, while the French use
« this » (note the space around the quotation marks). In French
typography, you also put spaces around "!", "?", and ":".
--
Michael Piotrowski, M.A. <m.piotrowski@springer.de>
Electronic Technologies, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-13 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-09 17:51 Daniel Monjar
1999-09-09 21:55 ` Jack Vinson
1999-09-09 22:34 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1999-09-10 15:35 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-09-10 16:24 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-09-10 16:32 ` Emerick Rogul
1999-09-10 18:29 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-09-10 19:01 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-09-12 5:16 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-09-13 9:17 ` Michael Piotrowski [this message]
1999-09-13 18:32 ` Florian Weimer
1999-09-13 21:46 ` Mick Gower
1999-09-15 22:13 ` Edward J. Sabol
1999-09-19 2:56 ` Greg Stark
1999-09-25 0:47 ` Ken McGlothlen
1999-10-05 1:40 ` François Pinard
1999-10-05 14:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-10-05 22:49 ` Russ Allbery
1999-10-06 0:45 ` David Coe
1999-09-14 12:33 ` Toby Speight
1999-09-14 8:24 ` Tibor Simko
1999-09-11 1:44 ` Rene H. Larsen
1999-09-11 7:06 ` Graham Murray
1999-09-12 5:05 ` Stainless Steel Rat
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