John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com writes:
[Balanced delimiters are] useful how?
For instance, they can be used by a program invoking the compiler
(emacs, an IDE, etc) do highlighting of the enclosed text.
That would be useful if it were done anywhere but Gnu documentation. It
isn't.
I'm
In article buovd0tbukn@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com,
Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org wrote:
Barry Margolin bar...@alum.mit.edu writes:
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
John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com writes:
I find it amazing that people go to such great lengths to try
(emphasis here...) and fix this.
I've never tried to fix this.
For instance, gcc actually uses unicode quotes if LANG (or whatever)
suggests it's possible...
-Miles
--
`The suburb is an
In article buoaai4a43h@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com,
Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org wrote:
For instance, gcc actually uses unicode quotes if LANG (or whatever)
suggests it's possible...
Setting LANG=C will save you from this.
-- Richard
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gnu-misc-discuss
John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com writes:
...the usefulness of balanced delimiters...
Useful how?
For instance, they can be used by a program invoking the compiler
(emacs, an IDE, etc) do highlighting of the enclosed text. The use of `
to mark the start of such sequences is particularly useful
I wrote:
[Balanced delimiters are] useful how?
Miles writes:
For instance, they can be used by a program invoking the compiler
(emacs, an IDE, etc) do highlighting of the enclosed text.
That would be useful if it were done anywhere but Gnu documentation. It
isn't.
--
John Hasler
Miles writes:
...the usefulness of balanced delimiters...
Useful how?
I find it amazing that people go to such great lengths to try
(emphasis here...) and fix this.
I've never tried to fix this.
--
John Hasler
jhas...@newsguy.com
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
Dave dave_140...@hotmail.com writes:
Hi Dave,
I have often seen single backquotes in GNU software documentation. For
example, in
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html one can
read:
Using `htonl' is necessary so that
I guess, the main reason is that this is the
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
[Not sure which newsgroup would be best, sorry for the spam.]
Hi,
I have often seen single backquotes in GNU software documentation. For
example, in http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html
one can read:
Using `htonl' is necessary so that
or:
followed by
Dave dave_140...@hotmail.com writes:
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? For
example:
Using 'htonl' is necessary so that
or:
Using htonl is necessary so that
Some fonts have
Richard Kettlewell r...@greenend.org.uk writes:
Some fonts have the apostrophe represented by, approximately speaking,
the mirror image of the grave accent. In that case `htonl' looks like
it has balanced quotes.
These days ‘single’ and “double” quotes are available in Unicode.
Unicode
Barry Margolin bar...@alum.mit.edu writes:
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.
Neither
In article 87oc6mprwj@thumper.dhh.gt.org,
John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote:
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
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