The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #44693   Message #658557
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
26-Feb-02 - 06:42 PM
Thread Name: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
Subject: RE: 'Now I don't like to be pedantic '
A printer once told me that no book exists in which all of the quotes have been properly set. Quotation marks are a proof-readers, and a typesetters, nightmare. I know type is no longer set, but electrotyped (no, now computer printing has arrived), but the observation still holds.