Hans Aberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote about quotes and punctuation. In my personal pre-processor for LaTeX (which involves an intermediate SGML stage under my personal DTD so that, e.g., I can get to HTML without going through LaTeX), I have provided for myself the following names: (Note: "quote" and "quotation" are names of existing LaTeX environments.) quophrase: to set the content, possibly only a letter, in standard typeset quotation marks; Personal: \quophrase{foo text} LaTeX: ``foo text'' quochar: to provide a *character* (could be a phrase) in "string" representation as for documenting C code; Personal: \quochar{x} LaTeX: \texttt{`x'} quostr: to provide a *string* (could be only a character) in "string" representation; Personal: \quostr{foo string} LaTeX: \texttt{foo string} qquostr: same as "quostr" except that the string is delimited with ascii quotation marks, i.e., hex 22, as for documenting C code I do not perceive these as mere macro substitutions when I think about automatic processing to many possible output formats. They are about *content*. -- Bill Hammond