From: Jorgen Schaefer <forcer@forcix.cx>
Subject: Re: French quotes treated as parentheses
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 04:36:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u04zn7i9.fsf@forcix.kollektiv-hamburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1G6qZo-0000Ez-SM@fencepost.gnu.org
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I don't think it's a good idea to mark angle quotation marks
> as parenthesis syntax. Neither LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK nor
> RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK are.
>
> Maybe they should be. Wouldn't it be convenient?
For some, yes. For others, no. Especially in multi-lingual text,
this can be annoying.
> (They would have the same
> problem: German uses DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK as the left
> quotation mark, and LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK as the right
> one.)
>
> We can solve this problem, for whichever characters, by creating
> a mode that selects one behavior or the other.
How about creating modes for the various options, or even just a
single `set-quote-environment', and set the syntax to punctuation
by default?
Regards,
-- Jorgen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-30 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-28 5:34 French quotes treated as parentheses Sven Joachim
2006-07-28 5:56 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-28 12:27 ` Sven Joachim
2006-07-28 17:06 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-28 19:42 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-28 20:22 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-29 2:23 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2006-07-29 15:18 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-30 2:36 ` Jorgen Schaefer [this message]
2006-07-31 18:30 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-29 6:08 ` Sven Joachim
2006-07-29 23:34 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-29 8:52 ` Sven Axelsson
2006-07-29 23:34 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-30 10:09 ` Yann Hodique
2006-07-29 15:17 ` Richard Stallman
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