Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:43:44 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: My fanac
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> kfl at KeithLynch.net 10/20/03 02:21PM
>>"Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
>> The book is =A1Limekiller! by Avram Davidson.
>
>Note that the equal sign and A1 is intended to look like an upside
>down exclamation point.  Is there anyone anywhere who sees it as such?
>Or are the authors of Michael's email program confused?  Thanks.

Stories take place in a fictionalized British Honduras (now Belize), hence =
the Spanish style of exclamation mark.

>
>I notice that oldearthbooks.com and other websites don't even try to
>render even the rightside up exclamation point.  I've also noticed
>that increasing numbers of websites have even given up on trying to
>render apostrophes.  Sigh.

mjw

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