Re: True quotes from David Perrell on 1996-07-18 (www-html@w3.org from July 1996)

From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 15:24:34 -0700
To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <01BB74BE.F53C5240@max1-ag-ca-26.earthlink.net>

Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:

I have brought up the issue more than once, loudly, in several
places, and even included exact text for the DTD, which I
reproduce below. 

Bravo. I would, however, argue that reversing the order thusly:

<!ENTITY quotesl CDATA "&#8216;" -- left single quote     -->
<!ENTITY quotesr CDATA "&#8217;" -- right single quote    -->
<!ENTITY quotedl CDATA "&#8220;" -- left double quote     -->
<!ENTITY quotedr CDATA "&#8221;" -- right double quote    -->

makes more sense as single, double, left and right are subsets of a 
character type "quote". This also more closely resembles the standard 
names of quotedblright, etc.

David

Received on Thursday, 18 July 1996 18:37:14 UTC