• TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I mean, I’m pretty certain I was taught in school to do things like this:

    “It’s only a block away,” she said.

    And, yeah. I definitely prefer (all else being equal):

    “It’s only a block away”, she said.

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      10 days ago

      Logically I prefer it but visually, I hate the way the quotation mark makes a weird space before the comma

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        10 days ago

        Hrm. What would you think of a ligature or unicode trick that would let you make roughly-speaking on “character” that put the quotes directly above the comma and was only as wide as the wider of the two individual characters? I could maybe get behind that.

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          10 days ago

          I wouldn’t mind it as shorthand in writing but I think it’d just be weird to have a defined symbol for something so specific

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        10 days ago

        well if you do it the other way there’s a space between the quote and the letter so the only difference is if the space is above or below (personally I prefer “”, probably because of coding)