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If only geeks loved Linotypes:

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If only geeks loved Linotypes
: Textism gives us Textile, a tool to sand and polish the rough edges of Web typography. It will:

: Replace single and double primes (‘ and “) used as quotation marks with HTML entities for opening and closing quotation marks (

4 responses to “If only geeks loved Linotypes:”

  1. Kathy K Avatar
    Kathy K

    ” Find the first person who broke your heart and report back on how devoid of joy their current life is.”
    That last could make it as big as Microsoft…

  2. Gary Farber Avatar
    Gary Farber

    That last function is great, but not really as great as, say, ” Replace double hyphens (–) with an em-dash (

  3. Frankenstein Avatar
    Frankenstein

    Alas, that last feature is scheduled “for a future release.”

  4. Frankenstein Avatar
    Frankenstein

    …but seriously, some of the bigger problems with trying to set type on the web are that

    1. different platforms have different font sets
    2. the standard fonts in the dominant platform (i.e. Windows) suck eggs
    3. screen resolutions aren’t really high enough for anti-aliasing to really look good.