On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Jeroen Hellingman <jeroen@bohol.ph> wrote:
2. Many contributors are volunteers, who even have trouble getting HTML and plain typography right (given the number of HTML books with "straight" quotes, etc.)
There's a lot you can complain about our output. But straight quotes? Seriously? For historical reasons, adding curved quotes in is a pain in the ass, that done properly involves someone looking at every single quote in a book--and if you don't want it done properly, a program can do it for you instantaneously. There's a very real question of whether this tedious procedure adds more value to the output then other things editors could do. I found * on Perseus pretty quickly, so apparently even non-volunteers have trouble getting "plain typography" correct. * http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0001%3... -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.