Enforcing good typography with Play Framework
Straight quotation marks and apostrophes (“, ‘) are easy to type but typographically they aren’t so great: Straight quotes come to us from the typewriter. In traditional printing, all quotation marks were curly. But typewriter character sets were limited by mechanical constraints and physical space. By replacing the curly opening and closing quotes with ambidextrous straight quotes, two slots became available for other characters. Word processors are not limited in this way. You can always get curly quotes. Compared to straight quotes, curly quotes are more legible on the page and match the other characters better. Therefore, straight quotes should … Continue reading Enforcing good typography with Play Framework