[documentation] Fwd: Documentation Team: 'Doc IRC meeting: Feb 19' at groups.drupal.org

[Addison Berry]

On Feb 16, 2009, at 6:11 AM, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen wrote:

>> 3. Don't use double hyphens; use the HTML entity.
>> And then about ten paragraphs later they use a double dash instead of
>> the HTML entity. Realistically I think there are very few who will  
>> take
>> the time to memorize the entity (I know I wimp out and use the double
>> dash).
>
> I'm in the camp is supporting "correct" (traditional?) typography  
> because
> it aids reading and skimming. At the same time people are generally  
> lazy.
> Would something like http://drupal.org/project/typogrify assist in
> automatically converting lazy typing into proper typography?

We are only going to use HTML entities if there is a filter to handle  
it. There is no way that we can maintain having thousands of people  
always type in entities by hand. I've never used Typogrify myself but  
definitely something to give a spin and get an infra review on. Thanks  
for pointing that out. I've created a webmasters redesign issue for  
it: http://drupal.org/node/376244

- Addi