Thu, October 14, 2010

Gruber, incredulous:

Did you know there were people who profess to prefer dumb quotes to proper ones?

I do, online, and here's why:

Smart quotes wreak fucking havoc when you cut-n-paste them from anywhere to anywhere. (Especially if Word is involved.) And they break like crazy if you're using script tricks to speed the process of posting something to your blog (as I expect he is, above) – whenever there's a quote or apostrophe in a New York Times headline, I end up having to delete something like ‘ and replace it with the punctuation I really need.

Yep, better software would be the perfect solution – but living in the world that exists, I'd rather just have dumb quotes for now.

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Formatting is easy – just think how you might do it in e-mail:

Styled text	**bold** or *italic*	bold or italic
Quoted text	> Trump is so dumb.	Trump is so dumb.
Hyperlink	Go to <https://abc.com>	Go to https://abc.com
Film/TV Titles	(m: Titanic) or (t: Frasier)	Titanic or Frasier

Or you can get really fancy: read the Markdown guide for more tricks.

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