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zme1 / toscana

A repository to house research and web development for the Lega Toscana project, led by professor Lina Insana (Spring 2018) and professor Lorraine Denman (Fall 2018), and with consultation from members of the DH Advanced Praxis group at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.
http://toscana.newtfire.org
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Quotation marks and apostrophes #43

Closed djbpitt closed 6 years ago

djbpitt commented 6 years ago

@zme1 Quotation marks and apostrophes would look better if they were curly, rather than straight.

ebeshero commented 6 years ago

@zme1 And there are ways you can control quotation marks with CSS, if you've used the <q> element in HTML to control quotation marks.

ebeshero commented 6 years ago

See https://github.com/ebeshero/newtFire-webDev/blob/d2eb76f027b5009501f1bee66c548d3789767966/nfIndex.css#L52

djbpitt commented 6 years ago

I usually manage paired quotation marks with <q> and CSS, as @ebeshero suggests, although I’ve been criticized (fairly) for not distinguishing quotation marks that demarcate quotations from those used for other purposes. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/q, which refers to “text is a short inline quotation” (emphasis added). But even if <q> with CSS handles single and double quotation marks when they’re paired around text, isolated apostrophes need to be entered as curly apostrophes. The keyboard shortcuts are documented at https://www.typewolf.com/cheatsheet#quotes-and-apostrophes.

zme1 commented 6 years ago

@ebeshero @djbpitt Thank you, both, for all the feedback you're giving on the site. Although most of the heavy lifting is now (temporarily) finished, I'll spend the week going through the site, validating pages, and revising any broken, unsightly, or incorrect moments on the pages. I still have some transformation work to do on the reading view, but I'll be combing through the site after!

My family is going on an impromptu 2-day trip this afternoon, so I won't be pushing anything after this morning until Wednesday or Thursday -- just so you both know.

ebeshero commented 6 years ago

@zme1 Happy travels! We'll just leave some issues here for safe-keeping until your return.