[thelist] Special chars on web pages

[Jonathon Isaac Swiderski]

What the authors need to do is go to the Auto-Correct dialog (Tools >
AutoCorrect) menu, choose the AutoFormat tab, and deselect "Replace as you
type. . . "Straight quotes" with ``smart quotes''" and ". . . Symbol characters
(--) with symbols (-)".  For good measure, they should probably deselect the
other options too, which include using fraction characters and superscript
ordinals. (1st and so on).  They should probably do this in both AutoFormat tabs
("AutoFormat as You Type" and "AutoFormat -- I'm not entirely sure what the
difference is).

Probably the systems on which these things show up properly are Windows systems
with Word (or at least Word fonts) installed.

jonathon
jswiders at cs.oberlin.edu

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Jonathon Isaac Swiderski      jswiders at cs.oberlin.edu
  Oberlin College, Ohio \|/|\|/ Ann Arbor, Michigan

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