I found a good blog post with a list of keyboard shortcuts for Mac OSX, which should certainly help things out! Check it out: I don’t think my keyboard even has a prime key.

You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. This entry was posted on Januat 9:03 am and is filed under Uncategorized. Tags: apostrophe, correct punctuation, prime, typography Wouldn’t they have desired to have the right message come from it? And then a newspaper photographer came and took a photo of it.

Plus, in the case of Delta, they paid a good chunk of change to have this sign printed. If you spend the time to make sure your typography is correct, your layout will feel more elegant and refined, though most people would be hard-pressed to tell you why. Sure, you can speak poorly and still get your point across just fine, but you won’t sound very smart or refined. So why should we care? Well, think of correct punctuation as proper grammar. That’s why this very blog entry is polluted with incorrect examples. Many design programs also have a feature called “Smart Quotes,” that converts the default prime and double prime symbols to apostrophes and quotes.įor the web, typographic manipulation is less accessible. In print, the correct symbol can be inserted using a glyphs palette or key command.