From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 9 16:36:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nscache2.x-treme.gr (mail1.x-treme.gr [212.120.196.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E64DE37B890 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 16:36:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat30.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.222]) by nscache2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with SMTP id CAA09695 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 02:36:06 +0300 Received: (qmail 13964 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Apr 2000 23:37:40 -0000 Date: 9 Apr 2000 23:37:39 -0000 Message-ID: <20000409233739.13963.qmail@hades.hell.gr> From: "Giorgos Keramidas" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, grasshacker@linkfast.net Subject: Re: backticks, quotes, and doublequotes--- In-Reply-To: <004d01bfa046$aab66be0$fc69a0d0@linkfast.net.linkfast.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "gh" > > 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