Having set InDesign and Word for typographer quotes, I find myself annoyed when I want to represent feet or inches. I wonder, what are simple keystrokes to use without having to reset, and reset again, preferences?
On the Mac (sorry, I do not know how to access on a PC), pressing Shift-Option-e will give you an angled prime (for the foot mark) and Shift-Option-g will give you a double angled prime (for the inch mark). Using a vertical prime or vertical double prime (aka, the non-curly quote) is just as typographically wrong as using non-curly quotes for quoting. A curious oversight.
Echoing LesBrown's comment, thanks for the very helpful and informative article, but the HTML value list at the end of it omits a critical detail - the character code for the typographic apostrophe itself??
Simple answers to very common type mistakes
Required reading for all professional designers!
(almost) completely helpful
The article doesn't answer the following question: is there a difference between the glyphs for a right single quotation mark and an apostrophe?
Keystrokes for prime characters
Having set InDesign and Word for typographer quotes, I find myself annoyed when I want to represent feet or inches. I wonder, what are simple keystrokes to use without having to reset, and reset again, preferences?
Vertical primes should not be used for inch/foot
On the Mac (sorry, I do not know how to access on a PC), pressing Shift-Option-e will give you an angled prime (for the foot mark) and Shift-Option-g will give you a double angled prime (for the inch mark). Using a vertical prime or vertical double prime (aka, the non-curly quote) is just as typographically wrong as using non-curly quotes for quoting. A curious oversight.
This is fabulous
'Nuff said!
But what's the HTML value for apostrophe?
Echoing LesBrown's comment, thanks for the very helpful and informative article, but the HTML value list at the end of it omits a critical detail - the character code for the typographic apostrophe itself??