From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 9 12:43:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E16737B5CA for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 12:43:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA87471; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 21:42:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <38F0DD9D.4C9E0730@nisser.com> Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 21:44:29 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Chvostek Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backticks, quotes, and doublequotes--- References: <004d01bfa046$aab66be0$fc69a0d0@linkfast.net.linkfast.net> <20000407183110.B238@parish> <20000409150039.B36746@flarn.it.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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' 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