From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Dec 29 0:34:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pom.INS.cwru.edu (pom.INS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.8.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CB9637B432 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:34:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (c4-1d043.neo.rr.com [24.93.243.43]) by pom.INS.cwru.edu with ESMTP (8.8.8+cwru/CWRU-1.0-smtprelay) id DAA03342; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 03:34:30 -0500 (EST) (from sjh13@po.cwru.edu) Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 03:34:26 -0500 Subject: Re: Why do we use `` and " Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v480) Cc: freeBSD-doc@freebsd.org To: darklogik@pittgoth.com From: Steven Huwig In-Reply-To: <3C2D2A52.4050806@pittgoth.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.480) Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, December 28, 2001, at 09:28 PM, Tom Rhodes wrote: > May I ask why, on much of the online documentation I see opening a > statement like: > > ``this and then closing with" > > Is there some formatting logic behind it, or is it just easier to > understand? Now, if you have a reason on a web page, please refer me > to it so that I may read it... Thanks for reading me.... > Looks like LaTeX to me (possibly TeX as well). Check out the example at the bottom of http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/ In a nutshell, TeX renders `` as open-curly-quote and " as close-curly-quote. This behavior irks me sometimes, as I'm accustomed to "smart-quotes" in word processors, and hence my LaTeX documents often have words in between two close-curly-quotes. Hope this helps, Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message