On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> However the typesetter's job entails identifying and checking code and
> verifying it hasn't been munged, eg smart-quoted. Somehow MS Word
> seems capable of munging J code a lot. I don't know what causes it
> (copy/paste? Import from HTML?) but I know what it hits: instances of
> <: and <. which can truncate whole phrases.

Word has several auto-correct features which productive programmers
in any language should disable, if they do not avoid the product entirely.

Smart quotes is one of them.

-- 
Raul
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