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No. I merely think he's missing the forest for the trees by preserving one obsolete typographic detail in a historical text yet translating the whole thing int
by dfranke 16y ago
No. I merely think he's missing the forest for the trees by preserving one obsolete typographic detail in a historical text yet translating the whole thing into HTML with minimal styling. This is somewhat akin to completely remodeling a 100-year-old building yet insisting on preserving the original knob-and-tube electrical wiring for authenticity -- you lose all the original charm yet you're still stuck replacing fuses twice a day and offending your readers every time the word 'succor' appears.
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- ugh 16y agoSo “proper” just refers to your aesthetic preference, not to any actual rule?
- dfranke 16y agoUh, somewhere in between, I think. I'm contending that one way is logical, conventional, and clear, and the other way is illogical, odd, and confusing. I think that's a stronger statement than just an aesthetic preference, but I'm not citing anyone else's prescription.
- ugh 16y agoI don’t get it. Seems awfully petty. It just a blogger and what he did is not in any way wrong. I could understand you if he had made any statement to the effect that everyone should do it like him but he absolutely did not.