On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 15:33:36 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >+1 on redundant replies. > >> wish is that the WWW interface supported composing in a >> monospaced font > >What's the difference? It shows up for the recipient in whatever font they >choose, typically monospaced. > But I'm the composer. LISTSERV WWW has no monospace option. I'd like to see vertical alignment in code samples that I type or paste.
>> that submitters turn off "smart" quotes > >Why? Because "pure" ASCII is ordained somewhere? Should they turn off their >Hebrew or Chinese names too? Unicode rulz, dude! Readability rulz! I agree -- >it looks better that way. "Dumb" quotes are an artifact of typewriters and 6- >or 7-bit character sets. Real type has used "smart" quotes for centuries. > For code samples. Do compilers nowadays understand "smart" quotes? HLASM, for one, doesn't. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
