Date: 9 Apr 2000 23:37:39 -0000 From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, grasshacker@linkfast.net Subject: Re: backticks, quotes, and doublequotes--- Message-ID: <20000409233739.13963.qmail@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <004d01bfa046$aab66be0$fc69a0d0@linkfast.net.linkfast.net>
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> From: "gh" <grasshacker@linkfast.net> > > Can someone explain to me why some people use backticks and double > backticks in, say, e-mail instead of using single quotes and double > quotes? This is probably because these same people are used to writing in troff, and/or TeX, where the ``canonical'' way of quoting is to use pairs of backquotes and single quotes. - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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