Re: ASCII convention

Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> >
> > Those three paragraphs are irrelevant to the question of what to use in
> > ASCII.
> >
> > If, however, you refer to typography where special fonts (containing
> > angle brackets) are not available, and if you're clever enough to use a
>
> when special fonts are available, how about using italics?

They give no hint whatsoever as to why you're marking some particular
stretch of text -- they just point out that it's marked.

> > Mac, the Single Guillemets provide a very reasonable substitute (see my
> > chapter in the Blackwell *Handbook of Linguistics*. Unfortunately, they
> > turn into Icelandic in Windows: instead of <xyz> write Ðxyzð.
> >
> > Quotation marks already have other functions that are likely to occur in
> > the same text as the mentioning of letters.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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