Re: Free books

On 04/08/2025 05:23, lar3ryca wrote:
> On 2025-08-03 00:42, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> On 03/08/2025 07:01, Hibou wrote:
>>> Le 03/08/2025 à 02:29, Peter Moylan a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> I have vaguely noticed that there are punctuation differences 
>>>> between
>>>> AusE and AmE, but have never seen a place where the 
>>>> difference in rules
>>>> is explained. The only one that really sticks out for me is the
>>>> illogical placement of commas and periods on the wrong side of a
>>>> quotation mark.
>>
>> Likewise.
>>
>>> It's usual in AmE to use double inverted commas for speech 
>>> (and that's also my preference, because of their extra weight 
>>> on the page), whereas single inverted commas are usual in BrE.
>>
>> ``It's usual for me to use double inverted commas, because when 
>> I quote speech `I don't trust single quotes to be strong enough 
>> to hold the doubles in place', but the doubles have got the 
>> singles nailed.''
> 
> I'm intrigued by your 'double inverted commas' for two reasons.
> 
> 1. In the example above, you have two characters at the beginning 
> of the sentence and two at the end, in mirror image. Are those 
> what you call 'double inverted commas', and is that the normal 
> usage in published literature?

LaTeX turns `` into 66 quotes and '' into 99 quotes.

In the books I read as a child, 66 and 99 were the norm, with 6 
and 9 being pressed into service for nesting where required..

At some point, the world seems to have switched to 6 and 9 on the 
outside and 66 and 99 on the inside, but I never got the memo.

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