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Smarten straight quotes in Pages 1.0
Authored by: blubbernaut on Mar 09, '05 06:07:16PM

It has to be said that straight quotes are not really quotation marks at all, but merely feet and inches marks. The only reason they get used as such is that they couldn't fit all characters on early typewriters.



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Smarten straight quotes in Pages 1.0
Authored by: PancakeMan on Mar 14, '05 05:29:25PM

or even more technically, they are prime and double-prime marks...



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