John McKown wrote:
  that publications people are using a "smart
editor" to create their documentation. Much like MS Word (may it be
accursed)​

​ inserts "smart quotes" when I want inch and foot marks (" and ').
There's an option in Word (ptui, ptui) to turn this behavior off. "Smart quotes" (ha!) drove me quite bonkers in corporate email (Outlook, ptui, ptui) until I found that setting.

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Jack J. Woehr     # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of
www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe
www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

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