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| From: | Dmitry Gutov |
| Subject: | bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings |
| Date: | Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:04:18 +0300 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/36.0 |
On 04/23/2015 11:03 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Who are those people, and why do they want that?Those who follow Markus Kuhn's advice, read here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
I think that's typographical advice, and not necessarily applicable to text editors.
It's pretty common to use slightly awkward (but easy to type and unambiguous) markup in source code, and then convert it to something nicer in generated documentation.
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