Re:2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf]
by svat on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:13PM
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More accurately, the typeset output has ”treat like alike” instead of “treat like alike”, which suggests that the TeX input (most likely) had "treat like alike" instead of ``treat like alike?''. Some historical context that led to features like this (or gotchas, today) in TeX and other systems of the time is here: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
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Re:2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf]
by zaroth on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:26AM
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I kept reading and re-reading 'treat' - 'like' - 'alike' trying to figure out where the difference was.
For those left wondering -- it's the first double-quotation mark leaning the wrong way in TFA.