Ming gong on 2008-03-31
yo matt you might need to start paying attention to this.
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Ryan CThe personal and professional website of Christopher Phin
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Mark SpahrTypos that everyone makes- who knew?
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Alis DeeSome of these -- such as the use of a 'middle dot' instead of a period in currency -- even I (yes, I) did not know. Of course, usage changes language so it's probably debatable exactly <em>how</em> 'correct' some of these things still are.
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Mark RabnettTen mistakes that everyone makes, an explanation of why each is wrong, and details on how to fix them. (For the Mac.) Tip for em & en dashes: alt-shift-hyphen for the em, alt-hyphen for an en dash.
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Eric HannekenExplains the proper usage of various similar punctuation marks, and tells you how to produce them on a Mac.
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Feet and inches should be represented by primes, which look a bit like straight quotes tilted slightly to the right.
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Aaron HarlowThe personal and professional website of Christopher Phin
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Corey MTen subtle typing bugs and how to fix them on Mac OS X
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brunurb ΔGrammar nazis are so last century. Welcome, friends, to the brave new world of the typography nazi. Below are ten mistakes that everyone makes, an explanation of why each is wrong,
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Only
£17.99!
Again, laziness and the democratisation of
typesetting mean that we've lost the use of the
correct interpunct in prices. £17.99 should be
correctly rendered £17·99. After decimalisation in
1971, a period was only supposed to be used if
technical limitations meant that a middle dot
couldn't be printed.
THE
FIX: shift-alt-9
types an interpunct [thanks, Nic!]
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