Quotation Mark and Apostrophe Entities

From DPWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search

As UTF-8 files are preferred by PG, it is better to use the actual characters rather than entities for quotation marks and apostrophes in HTML files. Here are the characters and keyboard shortcuts:

Punctuation Mark Character Shortcut Windows Shortcut Macintosh
Left Single Quotation Mark Alt-0145 Opt-]
Right Single Quotation Mark Alt-0146 Opt-Shift-]
Left Double Quotation Mark Alt-0147 Opt-[
Right Double Quotation Mark Alt-0148 Opt-Shift-[
Apostrophe Alt-0146 Opt-]
Left Angle Quotation Mark « Alt-0171 Opt-\
Right Angle Quotation Mark » Alt-0187 Opt-\
Double Low-9 Quotation Mark Alt-0132 Opt-Shift-w

For information about Distributed Proofreaders policy re: quotation marks and apostrophes in post-processing, please read the Post Processing FAQ.