Re: how many special characters to use?

At 01:00 PM 9/22/2000, you wrote:
>{snip}
>
>and I'm thinking I could spend a lot of time changing all those
>punctuations . . . to their ASCII code!
>
>Any thoughts? Some, most, all -
>
>  - l i s a

Hi!

I usually figure that anything below ASCII 127, which is up to and 
including the tilde, and can be produced just with the keyboard, is fine by 
itself.  This includes most punctuation, parentheses, plain quotes, plain 
dashes, etc.

If the author insists on having stuff like left and right quotes, or n- and 
m-dashes, then those can be replaced with macros, depending on your editing 
software.

But the majority of non-alpha characters should be fine the way they are.

dani

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