Hello Astron, Le 10/02/2014 23:23, Stefan Knorr a écrit : > > I think your look at this problem is very much informed by your being > French and by your own professional perspective. > My mother tongue, German, for instance uses far fewer apostrophes, > especially in formal writing, as apostrophes most often appear in > informal contractions (geht's = does it go, hast's = have you got it, > ...). I would suppose that my apostrophe-to-single-quote ratio in all > my German writing is around three to one. In academic writing > especially, with its rigid quoting requirements the ratio in German > (and maybe even in English) will actually tip in favour of the single > quotes. > Similarly, Angloamerican publishers of fiction very often use single > quotes in place of all regular quotes. (Of course, they do have the > advantage that their closing typographic quote mark looks the same as > an apostrophe, I think.)
I can't give actual numbers for French but a hard guess would be around 100 to 1. The apostrophe comes everytime the article "Le" (mascusline) or "La" (feminine) is placed in front of a noun or adjective that starts with a vowel. And there are plenty of these ;) > > Well, sorry to tell you, but straight quotes aren't actually good for > much. They are at least not the correct character to use for angle > seconds [1] or inches. Yes, you're right. But this is the current use FR writers find to that character. Of course, the Insert > Special chars menu option is there for that. -- Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
