Comments on: Typographic Horrors: Impostrophes!!! http://blog.fontshop.com/2012/10/31/typographic-horrors6/ Fri, 17 May 2013 17:55:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Fitoschido http://blog.fontshop.com/2012/10/31/typographic-horrors6/#comment-2224 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:52:21 +0000 http://blog.fontshop.com/?p=8267#comment-2224 I’m glad that most Linux keyboard layouts also include shortcuts for typing proper quotation marks, approppiate for any language.

People should pay more attention to the correct use of quotation marks and primes—for example, WordPress automatically puts a prime instead of a closing quotation mark if it has been typed after a number, which is wrong in most situations.

]]> By: Nei Crawford http://blog.fontshop.com/2012/10/31/typographic-horrors6/#comment-2221 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:05:25 +0000 http://blog.fontshop.com/?p=8267#comment-2221 Which brings to mind a howler in The Guardian: a headline set in 96pt Helvetica medium contained the date 1992 abbreviated to ’92; unfortunately, whoever set it must have been using Word – which automatically assumes that if a word space precedes a single quote, it must be an open quote, not an apostrophe.

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