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Re: [TIP] Get rid of the `foo' eyesore
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Edward Dodge |
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Re: [TIP] Get rid of the `foo' eyesore |
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Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:24:12 -0500 |
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Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
> There's an entrenched habit in Emacs and Info of abusing ` (grave
> accent) and ' (apostrophe) as left and right single quotation marks.
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> They aren't, and it looks horrible.
[...]
That horrible abuse of single-quotation marks seems to be a hold-over
of TeX. Essentially, it's TeX's way of printing "smartquotes,"
where ` is the 6-shaped quote-mark and ' prints as the 9-shaped one.
--
Edward Dodge
/GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin5.5) of 2002-10-11 on G3/