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Not prime symbols in Chapter 2 image. #35

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dse opened this issue Jun 12, 2018 · 0 comments
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Not prime symbols in Chapter 2 image. #35

dse opened this issue Jun 12, 2018 · 0 comments

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dse commented Jun 12, 2018

The image in Chapter 2 illustrating "straight" vs. "curly" quotes refers to the "straight" single- and double-quotes as prime and double-prime symbols. This is incorrect. Better terminology for the symbols in the illustration would be "neutral", "typewriter", or "ASCII" quotation marks. This section of a Wikipedia article lists additional terminology for those symbols as well.

The actual, typographically correct prime and double-prime symbols are:

  • U+2032 PRIME (′)
  • U+2033 DOUBLE PRIME (″)

and in most fonts appear to be close to "straight quotes" rotated about 10 to 15 degrees clockwise, though you may have to look closely.

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