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Re: [nmh-workers] nmh 1.7.1: both bcc and dcc broken for mts sendmail/pi


From: Ralph Corderoy
Subject: Re: [nmh-workers] nmh 1.7.1: both bcc and dcc broken for mts sendmail/pipe
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:12:10 +0000

Hi 

> > > > The «"» around `Blind-Carbon-Copy' should be \(lq and \(rq, or
> > > > the equivalent strings for consistency with the style used at
> > > > start of the paragraph.
> ...
> > > Am I the only guy who's been bitten by documentation that has
> > > single and double quotes that look cut-n-paste-able but actually
> > > aren't?
>
> Same.
>
> I've got some experience in typesetting, and appreciate a good-looking
> printed page. However, in the electronic copy I'll always take
> function over form. Plain double- or single-quotes instead of
> left-quote and right-quote, please.

But in this case the text is prose, not pipelines to paste, and it
should have the best quality quotes available on the output device.

Having ASCII appear as pasteable ASCII is a different kettle of worms.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.



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