Re: Free books

On 05/08/25 00:21, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> 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.

Not the whole world. That switch seems to have happened only in books 
published in the UK.

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Peter Moylan       [email protected]    http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW