Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 35, No. 181. Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne Hosted by DH-Cologne www.dhhumanist.org Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org Date: 2021-08-10 21:07:07+00:00 From: James Rovira <jamesrovira@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Humanist] 35.180: pointy brackets Does <- this -> work, or < this >? Jim R > > > Date: 2021-08-10 06:24:38+00:00 > From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> > Subject: pointy brackets > > Two closely related notes about the use of pointy brackets. > > The first concerns a sofar unfixable as well as rigidly consistent > reaction of Humanist's software to anything enclosed by a pair of > pointy brackets. This elegant software -- for which I am unutterably > grateful and which is otherwise faultless -- simply deletes whatever > a pair of said brackets encloses. I have been changing all instances of > them to square brackets by hand, but just now a message almost > slipped through that had a pointy-bracketed expression inserted into > the middle of a word. I almost didn't catch it. So, dear colleagues, > BEWARE! > > On a related topic. Occasionally messages come along that are rendered > almost unreadable by hyper-hypertextualist enthusiasm for links. During > the heyday of the Hypertext Revolution, the notion went out into the > world that whenever possible references (including the implicit kind) > should be turned into hyperlinks. It seems that cleverness overcame > communication for a time. I'm very glad indeed that we survived, but > I would be grateful if you'd watch out for any signs of re-infection. > > All best, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty, > Professor emeritus, King's College London; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews; Humanist > www.mccarty.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted List posts to: humanist@dhhumanist.org List info and archives at at: http://dhhumanist.org Listmember interface at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted/ Subscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/membership_form.php