
If for no other reasons, an acute is slightly harder to type on a keyboard than the plain apostrophe.
It's quite a pervasive practice, oddly.
It's starting to look as if you're stalking me, looking for or even manufacturing something to try to pick some petty fight over and disrupt a thread. Look at Neytiri's post:HoustonDavid wrote:The fonts you speak of David (Ross) are on English language based systems, and apostrophes
cannot be used as acute accents on these systems. On Spanish or French keyboards, the typist
has the choice of using the acute accent or the apostrophe. The answer to Neytiri's question,
from an Englsh speaker/typist is "I don't know why" French or Spanish typists choose one (the
acute accent) over the other (the apostrophe).
As an aside, when I was learning to type "cyrilic" on a standard English language-based typewriter,
we used extra characters to turn English letters into the five extra alphabet characters in the cyrilic
alphabet. It's complicated to explain, but we used all 26 letters of the English alphabet to represent
26 of the letters in cyrillic, then added a semi-colon in front of five regular Englsh letters to represent
the additional cyrilic characters. I suppose we did the same for any language containing non-English
characters when typing them on an English language typewriter. Probably did.![]()
Ah, for the golden days of the purely mechanical, purely English language typewriters. How I miss 'em.
If you read this post, then my response, and try to understand, it should not be too hard to figure out.Neytiri wrote:Why do people use the acute instead of the apostrophe?
Ie. ´ instead of '?![]()
If for no other reasons, an acute is slightly harder to type on a keyboard than the plain apostrophe.
It's quite a pervasive practice, oddly.
You are trying to pick a fight. I'm not having it. I'm not talking to you about fonts, but to the original poster, Neytiri, in reponse to his question.HoustonDavid wrote:Since the acute accent isn't on the standard English keyboard, how could you read it any
other way? And I'm not trying to pick a fight with you. Read my initial response regarding
"whimsy". You could just as easily have been trying to pick a fight with me talking about
fonts. Let's just leave it alone for a change.
Not really, no.DavidRoss wrote:Different fonts represent apostrophes in different ways, some vertical ( ' ), some sloped (´ ), and some curvy ( ’ ).
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So your question applies only to the CMG forum? Could you please restate the question or expand on it? I interpreted it as asking why, when you read material published by others on-line, apostrophes sometimes appear as a vertical mark ( ' ) and sometimes as an acute one (´ ). Different fonts seemed the simplest and thus most likely explanation for the phenomenon I thought you were describing. The marks I reproduced in parentheses are intended only to illustrate what I meant by "vertical," "sloped," and "curvy," not as actual examples of different fonts. As you note, CMG doesn't seem to allow that...and it sure wasn't easy to figure out how to reproduce the illustrations I wanted to show!Neytiri wrote:Not really, no.DavidRoss wrote:Different fonts represent apostrophes in different ways, some vertical ( ' ), some sloped (´ ), and some curvy ( ’ ).Neytiri wrote:Why do people use the acute instead of the apostrophe?
Ie. ´ instead of '?If for no other reasons, an acute is slightly harder to type on a keyboard than the plain apostrophe.
It's quite a pervasive practice, oddly.![]()
You used the same font here — Trebuchet MS for Windows people, Lucida Grande for Mac, I believe — and those are all different signs. The first one is an apostrophe, and the last one can be considered a typographical variant of it, but the middle one is simply an accute.
CMG doesn't allow us to use different fonts, by usingtags.Code: Select all
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¡²³¤€€¼½¾‘’¥¥×äåé®þüúúíóóöö««»John F wrote:Not quite on topic, but English speakers who want to type acute accents at the computer, at least under Windows, can set up so the apostrophe key does it. (Similarly for the other familiar diacritical marks.) Set up the keyboard's "language" as United States-International. Then when you strike a ', nothing will appear until you strike a letter: e for é, c for ç, and so on. Also, " followed by o is ö, ^ followed by a is â, etc.
Here's how to set this up:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560
If you do, you'll find that using these keys for their normal purpose, as an apostrophe or quotation mark, is a bit different. If the letter following the ' or " is a vowel or certain consonants, you need to strike the spacebar to get out of dead key mode. Otherwise you'll get Ö rather than "O.
Thanks! Let me try that...John F wrote:It's something I needed to know, for some projects I was working on. So I browsed around in books like "Windows Secrets" (used to buy and read big thick books on operating systems back then, if you can believe it) and found out. Versions before WinXP made it easier to set this up, but once you know where to look, it's a piece of cake.
Forgive me if we've been over this and I missed it, but can you explain why you are in the shortstop position at Yankee Stadium?Proton wrote:Thanks! Let me try that...John F wrote:It's something I needed to know, for some projects I was working on. So I browsed around in books like "Windows Secrets" (used to buy and read big thick books on operating systems back then, if you can believe it) and found out. Versions before WinXP made it easier to set this up, but once you know where to look, it's a piece of cake.
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Because Hu's on First.jbuck919 wrote:Forgive me if we've been over this and I missed it, but can you explain why you are in the shortstop position at Yankee Stadium?Proton wrote:Thanks! Let me try that...John F wrote:It's something I needed to know, for some projects I was working on. So I browsed around in books like "Windows Secrets" (used to buy and read big thick books on operating systems back then, if you can believe it) and found out. Versions before WinXP made it easier to set this up, but once you know where to look, it's a piece of cake.
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