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2024-12-15 21:26:45

Bernie the Wordsmith has moved to Neopaquita.es

berniethewordsmith@masto.es

People of the #fediverse, allow me to introduce my latest project, forged in the fires of a Sunday procrastination: @alt4memes An account where I will post ALT descriptions for meme templates from time to time. 100% human crafted, no AI. Hope you find it useful!

https://mastodon.social/@alt4memes

2024-12-16 11:14:02

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Bernie the Wordsmith Here's some good advice: Don't use the quotation marks on your keyboard in alt-text! They may be mistaken for control characters. I've seen alt-text being cut off at the first quotation mark, for example. Or they may be rendered incorrectly otherwise.

Use typographically correct quotation marks instead.

For English alt-text, that's “ and ”.
Windows: Alt+0147 and Alt+0148.
*nix: 3rd level+B and 3rd level+N.

For Spanish alt-text, that's « and ».
Windows: Alt+0171 and Alt+0187.
*nix: 3rd level+X and 3rd level+Z.

Alternatively, use the character map application of your operating system. Or copy-paste them from this comment.

If that's all too inconvenient, and you absolutely must use what's on the keyboard, use what amounts to single quotes: '.

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