On Sunday 05 September 2010 15:36:14 Louis Desjardins wrote: k. > > Actually, before the DTP revolution, the apostrophe has ? to my > knowledge ? always been a curved one! The straight one is used in > scientific notation. It?s only because the straight apostrophe was > so readily available on the keyboard that it was seemlessly and so > widely introduced into the typographic world.
Just to add to the confusion, typefaces like Palatino have a straight figure with no bulb in the single quote positions, with matching straight double quotes. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
