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Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Aug 2016 22:30:01 +0300 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:43:47 -0700
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > The important aspect, IMO, is to try to let the users select the
> > alternative they like without having to know how to type the quote
> > characters
>
> It would be reasonable to come up with an interface for that, perhaps listing
> the quoting styles and options. It's not clear that the UI should list
> languages
> too -- although that might help, the controversies might be more trouble than
> they're worth.
We can come up with labels that don't reference languages.
> Out of curiosity, in good-quality Hebrew text do you prefer top-level quoting
> with " and " or with „ and “?
The former, mostly, AFAIK. Sometimes I see “this” (in the logical
order), but never „this“. Wikipedia says „this”, but it's wrong, the
alternative variant is actually the primary one I see here almost
exclusively.
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Göktuğ Kayaalp, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Göktuğ Kayaalp, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Paul Eggert, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Paul Eggert, 2016/08/29
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Paul Eggert, 2016/08/30
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/30
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Richard Stallman, 2016/08/31
- tarball builds (was: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars), Stefan Monnier, 2016/08/30
- Re: tarball builds (was: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/30
- Re: tarball builds, Stefan Monnier, 2016/08/30
- Re: tarball builds, Paul Eggert, 2016/08/30
- Re: tarball builds, Stefan Monnier, 2016/08/30
- Re: tarball builds, Paul Eggert, 2016/08/30
- Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/08/28