Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone

[Nicolas Ruiz]

Lapo Luchini wrote:
> Don't know for spanish or french, but in italian the «» seems to be more
> specific to quote "a text" or a piece of speech, while '' is more
> correct to quote "a single word or sentence".

Same in spanish. Single quotes is the preferred method to make an
unstranslated word or sentence stand out, like '--branch' or when
marking a file name.

> 
> In computer science speech I'd say that:
> « = push context, create a wholly new context
> » = pop context
> 'x' = take "x" from a different context and talk about it here
> 
> In this regard, '' seems more correct to quote a file name to me...
> (in italian!!! I don't know about spanish or french, it may be
> completely different of course!!).

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