“Smart Quotes,” etc.

CalendarJohn Conners, who has one of the nicest CityDesk sites around, has written a tool that creates monthly calendars for CityDesk. Cool!

CityDesk is Not a Typewriter

Are you "sick" of 'ugly straight quotes' and -- worst -- double dashes?

When you want your web pages to look “really nice” — for that special occasion — you need to use Unicode entities in your HTML source. And one of the easiest ways to do this is by defining a few CityDesk variables. For example:

Define as so you get when you type
LQ “

“

 {$ .LQ $}
RQ ”

”

 {$ .RQ $}
LSQ ‘

‘

 {$ .LSQ $}
RSQ ’

’

 {$ .RSQ $}
EM —

—

 {$ .EM $}
EN –

–

 {$ .EN $}

For more about these and other special characters see Peter K. Sheerin's article The Trouble With Em ’n EN.

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