Ideally it would be the reader's choice, not the producer's choice. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Carlo Traverso <traverso@posso.dm.unipi.it>wrote:
"Jim" == Jim Adcock <jimad@msn.com> writes:
I don't send up plain text with curly quotes at all.
Marcello> That is a mistake....
Jim> I'm curious if anyone has any idea what percentage of Jim> submitted texts use "curlies" vs. just punting and going with Jim> ASCII-style "straights" ? My assumption has been that the Jim> great majority of submitted texts just use "straights."
When I checked 10 consecutive random ones, 9 used straight quotes. IIRC they were 10 different submitters.
Some of the DP perfectionists say that they like them better.
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