From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Dec 29 10:13:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3432037B41B for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 10:13:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (lcl234.zbzoom.net [208.236.36.234]) by pittgoth.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBTIEVD01517; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 13:14:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Message-ID: <3C2E0980.9020709@pittgoth.com> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 13:20:48 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes Reply-To: darklogik@pittgoth.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Huwig Cc: freeBSD-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why do we use `` and " References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Steven Huwig wrote: > > 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 > > > Greatly, thanks alot Steve :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message