Typophilia

After checking out Apostrophe Atrophy (via Gruber), I ran across this post ("Ticked Off") at A Thousand Times No about typographical use of apostrophes, quotation marks, dumb quotes, primes and double primes.

In that post, the author lists ways to produce real quotes on the Mac... I'm going to add to the list the true prime and double prime used for lat./lon. height, etc. (like this: 5´4˝):

True right quotation mark (”): Shift + Option + [
True left quotation mark (“): Option + [
True apostrophe (’): Shift + Option + ]
True reverse apostrophe (‘): Option + ]
True prime (´): Shift + Option + e
True double prime (˝): Shift + Option + g

BTW, if you write documents in LaTeX and care about typesetting details like this, check out this great and free (as in freedom) book on various issues in typesetting LaTeX documents:

• Flynn, P. (2003). A Beginner's Introduction to Typesetting with LaTeX. Retrieved March 2, 2008, from http://www.business-software-books.us/word_processing_0001.php.

PS: You'll notice when I write on the net, I don't take the time to use real apostrophes, quotation marks, etc. But I'd like to be more careful with my print production in the future.