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Article #2101Re: Why backquotes in GNU documentation?
From: Richard Kettlewell
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:10
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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. -- http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/
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From: Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Why backquotes in GNU documentation?
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