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| From: | John Hasler |
| Subject: | Re: Why backquotes in GNU documentation? |
| Date: | Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:39:08 -0600 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
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. -- John Hasler jhasler@newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
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