In the message dated: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 17:18:28 -0500,
The pithy ruminations from Paul Fox on
[Re: [nmh-workers] nmh 1.7.1: both bcc and dcc broken for mts sendmail/pipe]
were:
=> valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
=> > On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 17:30:28 +0000, Ralph Corderoy said:
=> >
=> > > The �" � around `Blind-Carbon-Copy' should be \(lq and \(rq, or the
=> > > equivalent strings for consistency with the style used at start of the
=> > > paragraph.
=> >
=> > And in today's "get off my lawn" rant.. :)
=> >
=> > Am I the only guy who's been bitten by documentation that has single
=> > and double quotes that look cut-n-paste-able but actually aren't?
=>
=> No, definitely not.
Same.
I've got some experience in typesetting, and appreciate a good-looking
printed page. However, in the electronic copy I'll always take function
over form. Plain double- or single-quotes instead of left-quote and
right-quote, please.
Mark "don't get me started on things that look like space separators but paste
as printable Unicode characters" Bergman
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