Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 21:44:29 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: Paul Chvostek <paul@it.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backticks, quotes, and doublequotes--- Message-ID: <38F0DD9D.4C9E0730@nisser.com> References: <004d01bfa046$aab66be0$fc69a0d0@linkfast.net.linkfast.net> <20000407183110.B238@parish> <20000409150039.B36746@flarn.it.ca>
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Paul Chvostek wrote: > > Many people seem to use a pair of back ticks and a pair of apostrophes > as the left and right sides of double quotes, since ASCII doesn't have > these characters itself. It's also a TeX convention. That is ``quoted'' will get printed with the 'proper' <g> quotation marks. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. UPC/Chello home http://nisser.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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