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ditto
What's best typographic practice for identical list items?
1. " (typewriter straight double quote, almost never in real printed works)
2. “ (proper opening double quotes)
3. ” (proper closing double quotes)
4. " (italic or oblique straight double quotes)
5. ″ (double prime, proper way for inches, minutes etc)
Or is there an actual ditto character used in typesetting before unicode etc that's in common unicode fonts?
Item 3, ” seems likely, but I've not seen anything definitive. Lists with dittos aren't common in fiction.
As an aside the typewriter single quote does seem to be used in real typesetting in transliteration of some words not normally using the Roman-Latin alphabet, or perhaps to indicate syllables in some dictionaries?
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