On Sep 27, Branden wrote

This Sept 27 message scratched an old meta-itch:

> The formatter doesn't maintain enough state to "do what
> the user means" and convert [ANSI quotes] into directional
> double quotes.

I'm very glad for that. I have battles enough with the AI
in Microsoft Word or its open-source imitators. One
helpful feature causes an input  line beginning with my
name,  M. Douglas McIlroy, to turn on paragraph numbering,
beginning with Roman numeral M.

Doug

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