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[Ilya Haykinson <haykinson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Also, please do not forget that an em-dash () in LaTeX is "---". Please use
"space, dash, dash, dash, space" to separate thoughts within a sentence.

Much like double quotes this applies to writers, but especially for editors.
I've recently gone through and fixed up all existing copy.

-ilya

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Jamin Day
<jaminday+ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx<jaminday%2Bubuntu@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:

> Yes this is correct - double quotes should be written ``some text'', not
> the standard way we are all used to. Whilst it would be good for writers to
> do this as they go it is easy to forget (guilty of this myself), so as the
> chapters are edited this is one of the things anyone editing (and anyone
> translating) will have to be aware of and correct where necessary.
>
> Jamin
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:59 AM, José Francis <6180339gold@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Here you are:
>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/en/wiki/LaTeX/Formatting#Quotes
>> I vaguely remember reading that on an Ubuntu wiki somewhere, recently, but
>> I couldn't find it.
>>
>> --Ben [please ignore name attached to email account :)]
>>
>> 2010/1/9 Martin Lukeš <martin.meridius@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> Hi guys!
>>>
>>> During translation I noticed a few strings which contains double quotes.
>>> I thought that LaTeX wants *``this''* style, not *"this"*.
>>> Here is grep for revision 61.
>>> $ bzr revno ; find . -name "*.tex" -exec grep -H \" {} \; | sort
>>> 61
>>> ./chapter3/chapter3.tex:the option "Install Ubuntu" and follow the
>>> prompts.
>>> ./chapter6/chapter6.tex:%"Note: Only one instance of Ubuntu's underlying
>>> package management tool 'apt' is allowed at any one time. This is to prevent
>>> potential problems such as accidentally installing two conflicting packages,
>>> or removing a required package. All gui-based package management
>>> applications, such as Ubuntu Software Center, Update Manager and Synaptic
>>> Package Manager, rely on apt to manage your software. While one of these
>>> programs is running, it will lock apt to prevent any other applications from
>>> accessing it. If you encounter problems trying to update your system, make
>>> sure no other package management programs are currently open." --jaminday
>>> ./chapter6/chapter6.tex:%Will we have capability to have "tip boxes" or
>>> "advanced tips" or similar in this document? I think having something like
>>> the following paragraph in a tips box would be good here:
>>> ./chapter7/chapter7.tex:% Mention aptitude and apt-get, and explain the
>>> differences. Aptitude is actually "better" than apt-get - maybe we should
>>> use that. - humphreybc
>>> ./chapter9/chapter9.tex:Grab it from the Software Center by searching for
>>> "GIMP."
>>> ./chapter9/chapter9.tex:Install it from the Software Center by searching
>>> for "VLC."
>>> ./chapter9/chapter9.tex:Once again, available in the Software Center
>>> under "Gnome Do."
>>> ./chapter9/chapter9.tex:You can find it in the Software Center by
>>> searching for "Cheese."
>>>
>>>
>>> Could you remind me where I possibly read this?
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Regards
>>> Martin Lukeš
>>> P.S.: Please keep the communication history
>>>
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