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Re: Why backquotes in GNU documentation?
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Richard Kettlewell |
Subject: |
Re: Why backquotes in GNU documentation? |
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Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:10:26 +0000 |
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Dave <dave_140390@hotmail.com> writes:
> Now, I was wondering what could be the reason behind this convention.
> Why not use just straight quotes also in front of the quoted word? For
> example:
>
> Using 'htonl' is necessary so that
>
> or:
>
> Using "htonl" is necessary so that
Some fonts have the apostrophe represented by, approximately speaking,
the mirror image of the grave accent. In that case `htonl' looks like
it has balanced quotes.
These days ‘single’ and “double” quotes are available in Unicode.
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Re: Why backquotes in GNU documentation?,
Richard Kettlewell <=
Re: Why backquotes in GNU documentation?, Tassilo Horn, 2011/02/10