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Special Saturday release of In-Process!

This week, we've got an update on our Casting Call, info on NVDA 2022.3.2 and 2022.4 Beta 3, the string freeze, a great testimonial from a user, and some info you never realised you needed on punctuation, alternative symbol names and how to change them. And why aren't we using the interrobang more?!

https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-19th-november/
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In-Process 19th November

We are continuing to move ever closer to NVDA 2022.4. Since last edition, we have a new beta AND we’ve announced the string freeze. Video request First up, a quick reminder of our Casting call for …
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Grant Simpson
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I'm late to this party, but you raise an excellent question. Why aren't we using the interrobang more‽
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@interrobang My guess would be, at this point, there is no single keystroke for the character ‽ so most users would have to type ?! but we've all been taught to end a sentence or question with only a single punctuation mark? And for the more technical writers, it doesn't appear in the Chicago Manual of Style (or other style manuals)? I did find a request for it in the CMOS faq: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Punctuation/faq0057.html
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Grant Simpson
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Definitely no single keystrokes out there. Unicode alt-text for ‽ is 203D then alt+x. It doesn’t work everywhere, though. In iOS, I’ve set up text replacement for either !? or ?! to result in "‽". I have a keyboard that lets me assign custom macros to extra hotkeys. That works nicely. I have serious doubts that it will ever be a standard key if it hasn't become one by now.
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@interrobang Well to make it a standard key, you'd need to remove something else, and where would we be without grav `, or scroll lock :)
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