Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
On 12 Jan 1998 14:57:41 -0000, mba...@iee.org (Mark Baker) wrote: >In article <34b...@news3.ibm.net>, > tru...@ibm.net (Truly Donovan) writes: > >> I use "less than" and "greater than" when they occur in a context >> where "less than" and "greater than" are meaningful. However, most of >> time that *I* have to refer to them, they are much more meaningfully >> called "angle brackets." > >And of course, when properly typeset, the symbols for these are different, >and french quotes are different again. We could have a long debate here about what "proper" typesetting might be under the circumstances. If the character used to indicate "greater than" and "open angle bracket" are the same in the context in which the reader will have to deal with them, I'm unconvinced that it is a service to that reader to use characters with a different appearance when describing to that reader how those characters are to be used. Indeed, since I have had occasion to do that very thing, I would have rejected any suggestion that I use two different glyphs for the characters in question. -- Truly Donovan reply to truly at lunemere dot com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 113841,2e58d5f13e65ed35 X-Google-Attributes: gid113841,public X-Google-Thread: 102ffd,2e58d5f13e65ed35 X-Google-Attributes: gid102ffd,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,d8ba9ee032dffd44 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: tru...@ibm.net (Truly Donovan) Subject: Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols Date: 1998/01/13 Message-ID: <34b...@news3.ibm.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 315476133 References: <34A...@ares.informatik.uni-ulm.de> <01bd187e$68352060$LocalHost@atkins> <696gls$p0...@clarknet.clark.net> <Pfz...@sambo.demon.co.uk> <34B...@on.spammer> <EUX...@xemu.demon.co.uk> <01bd1eff$2b1608c0$db9...@goodnet.goodnet.com> <jdo...@aus-tx25-05.ix.netcom.com> <34b...@news3.ibm.net> <69db15$ke8$1...@aziraphale.pet.cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: tru...@lunemere.com Organization: IBM.NET Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.usage.english,alt.english.usage
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