On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 12:16 -0600, kwhiskerz wrote:
What could be simpler than: diacritical mark plus letter or diacritical mark twice?
Better keyboards! Since you asked. ;-) It is a right pain having to go through all these steps for the common ' " characters needed to be used a LOT in ordinary computing.
What I want, and haven't had any luck finding, are easy ways to type the proper punctuation characters. Proper English open and closing quotes, em and en dashes, etc. It gets to be a right pain, when authoring HTML, to have to wade through a keyboard map or type in &emdash; and “ all over the place.