- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:13:33 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > > > But better would be to find another solution altogether. > > How about the author actually inserting the proper characters in the first > place? > > > (e.g. adding a feature to CSS to let CSS automatically remove the quote > > marks from inside quotations so that they can be replaced with > > typographically better ones.) > > In my opinion, solving input method problems at the data format level or in > the display software is generally a bad idea. This needs to be solved on the > OS text input method layer or, failing that, in the editing app. I sometimes want to take quotes and put them into floats with huge oversized quotemarks under the text at the top right and bottom left (it's quite a common effect in glossy magazines). This can't be done unless you can address the quotes directly somehow. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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