Re: Jon¹s Commands in Pig Latin
Re: Jon¹s Commands in Pig Latin
- Subject: Re: Jon¹s Commands in Pig Latin
- From: Steven Angier <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:36:01 +1100
On 25/2/03 10:42 AM, "John Delacour" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
At 9:56 am +1100 25/2/03, Steven Angier wrote:
>
>
> That "curly apostrophe" has every right to be there! Otherwise, someone
>
> might mistake it to mean "minutes" or "feet" rather than possession --
>
> besides that, it looks better.
>
>
>
> As a former desktop publisher, I give Jon extra points for this.
>
>
As a long time sender of messages in iso-8859-1 that does not contain
>
the character and as a current user of an operating system that deals
>
in utf-8 and a present poster to an Apple list that will not display
>
it I'd rather sacrifice my high artistic scruples
>
for a bit of functionality.
I would rather sacrifice a bit of functionality for aesthetics.
>
>
By the way, what does inches curly apostrophe inches mean?
In this case, it's my shorthand for coining a phrase -- something which
should really be done by italicising the phrase, but is not possible here.
To be truly pedantic, I'm not sure what "curly apostrophe" means since all
apostrophes are meant to be curly.
Steven Angier
Macscript.com
_______________________________________________
applescript-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives:
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-users
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.