Re: Why backquotes in GNU documentation?
Richard Kettlewell <[email protected]> Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:10:26 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.utils |
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| Organization | Anjou |
| Message-ID | <87pqr2r50t.fsf__35544.1459724263$1297194102$gmane$org@araminta.anjou.terraraq.org.uk> |
Dave <[email protected]> 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/