On Jul 16, 2011 7:50 PM, "zeal" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi list, > > We often see that `a word what you like'. But i get confused on it. > Why is it `word' but not 'word' or what else? It might be a carry over from the tex/latex world. In tex/latex a backtick ` is used to open a quote a forward tick ' is used to close it. Similarly a double backtick `` for opening double quotes and two forward ticks '' for closing double quotes. This way tex/latex is absolutely sure that you want opening or closing braces.
Regards Amit > > -- > Cheers > > - zeal > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
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