Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-09 Thread Philip Taylor
Chris Williams wrote: > 1) These characters are font dependent. Unless you are specifically > calling out fonts that you use, you risk using glyphs that will not be > found on your target machine. My understanding (and I may be wrong) is that if a modern browser is called on to display a glyph

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-09 Thread Gates, Jeff
On 10/9/15, 12:35 PM, "css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org on behalf of Chris Williams" wrote: >You mean the one that shows up as an unknown character on many platforms? >For reference either a superscript 3 or 1 in my email below... > >1) These characters are font dependent. Unless you are spec

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-09 Thread Philip Taylor
Gates, Jeff wrote: > Instead of a ³tick² mark for an apostrophe, I¹d like a mark like you see > here: ¹ > This: ¹ Not this: ' Hmmm, what I see are superscript 3, 2 & 1 in that order, followed by a prime. What I now think you meant is : Instead of a “tick” mark for an apostrophe, I¹d like a ma

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-09 Thread Chris Williams
You mean the one that shows up as an unknown character on many platforms? For reference either a superscript 3 or 1 in my email below... 1) These characters are font dependent. Unless you are specifically calling out fonts that you use, you risk using glyphs that will not be found on your target

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-09 Thread Gates, Jeff
On 10/9/15, 12:20 PM, "Philip Taylor" wrote > > >Gates, Jeff wrote: > >> Is there a way I can use css to replace all dump apostrophes with curly >> ones ? > >Google has never heard of "dump apostrophe(s)" (and neither have I), so >I regret that I can't help with this one. > >Philip Taylor Inst

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-09 Thread Philip Taylor
Gates, Jeff wrote: > Is there a way I can use css to replace all dump apostrophes with curly > ones ? Google has never heard of "dump apostrophe(s)" (and neither have I), so I regret that I can't help with this one. Philip Taylor ___

[css-d] CSS solution for a "curly" apostrophe

2015-10-09 Thread Gates, Jeff
Is there a way I can use css to replace all dump apostrophes with curly ones? I¹m getting sick of searching and replacing with an html entity. I¹d like to apply it to the body so that it applies to all apostrophes. Thanks, Jeff > __