Quasiquotation marks

Gerrit Ansmann gansmann at uni-bonn.de
Tue Jun 10 07:35:13 CDT 2014


On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:51:44 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans <frederic.grosshans at gmail.com> wrote:

> This week’s shady character introduces quasiquotation marks, used in fanzines since at least 1944 for “in substance” quaotation. This mark is the superposition of " (or ') with -.
>
> http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2014/06/miscellany-49-quasiquote/
>
> This looks like a good candidate for unicode encoding, with many discussions in the linked blog posts and comment being about recreating it through rich text (word processor/CSS/TeX...).

This reminds me of the special quotation marks shown and discussed here (with no satisfying conclusion in my opinion):
http://german.stackexchange.com/q/10055/2594

Gerrit Ansmann



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