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Re: Why backquotes in GNU documentation?
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: Why backquotes in GNU documentation? |
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Wed, 09 Feb 2011 01:09:41 -0500 |
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In article <87oc6mprwj.fsf@thumper.dhh.gt.org>,
John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Dave writes:
> > GNU `make'
>
> > 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?
>
> It's an attempt to emulate proper left and right single quotation marks
> in ASCII. I don't like it.
Neither do I. The problem is that in most computer fonts, ` and ' are
not mirror images of each other. ` is angled, but ' is usually vertical.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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Re: Why backquotes in GNU documentation?, Richard Kettlewell, 2011/02/08