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[fuzzyjay]

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The good old days of fine typography are gone. One more curmudgeon point for me!

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[marmtx.livejournal.com]

Well, it's all thanks to castrated keyboard and "easy to use" software :)
Can average person tell how to type a proper apostrophe instead of a single quote sign? Or opening/ending quote :)
I bet first edition was done in word (apostrophes with auto-correction on) and then re-edited in email (single quotes)

[danthered.livejournal.com]

It‘s easy on a Mac.

Sø åré à büñçh ôƒ óthèr «special» characters and ”punctuation marks”.

[marmtx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, except I only seems to be doing an umlaut when I want to print something or do other "shortcut combo" :)

Why on earth is upper diacritics linked to e/u? And why lower case option-m is µ and upper case is Â?

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

I cheat and use the character palette, but the e/u/m assignments make sense to me. The most common accent on an e is that one, whatever it's called, and the umlaut (if not the dieresis) is most common on the u. And m makes a certain kind of sense, the symbols for micron and Angstrom units.

Oh, and another curmudgeon point. Microsoft Word will put an opening single quote when you type "'90s" or "'80s," when what you want is an apostrophe. My workaround is to type "x'80s" and delete the "x," but it doesn't seem to have caught on with the world at large.

[marmtx.livejournal.com]

Ah I see :) Cheating is baaad :)
Frankly in about 90 percent of cases I need a-umlaut, as ä seems to be quite prevalent in German texts (for some reason my texts don't have many "für"s). I thought the alt-u is for "umlaut" but then what is "e"? Emphasis? And why alt-c is not © but rather ç (while alt-r is ®)? etc etc. Parts are logical, rest is stupid :)

In word I think you can always define multi-character substitution rules, so if you do "'80s" frequently, just create auto-substitution that'll be to your liking, and have one less thing to be annoyed about :)

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

I think it's more about what's common in English texts... The acute accent and the umlaut sneak in more often than the others.

[danthered.livejournal.com]

d'OOOH! I hate having to work around MS Word's "helpful" features like this.

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

apart from a hash sign. WTF is up with that?

You know no-one uses one of those ever, not like every web design app uses one or anything...

[danthered.livejournal.com]

iDon‘t like errors like this.

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

I found some that I make. Some of the ones you list don't bother me, though.

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

I have a confession:

Sometimes I put inch marks in to annoy rabid typography geeks :-D Oh and those Eats, Shoots and Leaves people too.

Really life is too short :-P

(but yeah it's probably last minute Word changes)

e-vil

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

There have got to be things that annoy you that make no impression on me. I'm having trouble thinking of any, since you haven't posted about your pet peeves lately. Once you do, I'm going to be sure to propagate them throughout the world. Mwa ha ha.

Re: e-vil

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

Well I really hate:

Chocolate
Naked Furry Bears
Steak
LJ Unity and Love
Blow jobs
Profiteroles.

Honest. I'd really hate to have more of those in the world. Woe would be me if that happened...

;-)

Re: e-vil

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

Ah, but you love you some irony.