On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 12:10 -0500, Larry Jones wrote:
Thomas Maier writes:
Well-establishing this way of quoting was probably the Wrong Thing to
do;
No, it was not.
But obviously it has become so, like I said by the way. At least with
most modern fonts I have seen.
Markus Kuhn
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 14:31 -0500, Larry Jones wrote:
Mark E. Hamilton writes:
Is this in fact a typo, or is there some other meaning/use for this
`name' pattern?
It's a well-established way of simulating ``real'' (typesetting) quote
marks using only standard ASCII characters. In
Thomas Maier writes:
Well-establishing this way of quoting was probably the Wrong Thing to
do;
No, it was not. Markus Kuhn either doesn't know or chooses to ignore
that this convention long predates things like the X Window System and
its fronts, going all the way back to the original ASCII
Boy, ask an innocent question and things go quickly downhill. Good thing
I didn't include something about add triggers. ;)
Any way, I think I understand the issues about typographic conventions,
history, and whatnot, but strictly from the point of view of someone who
sits in front of a
I ran across the following typo in the output from 'cvs update', when it
is passed the name of a file which exists but is unknown to cvs. Note
the use of a grave accent on the left and an apostrophe on the right.
sahp6613% cvs -nq update -l blarg4.txt
cvs update: use `cvs add' to create an
This is a (possibly old) convention for quoting on Unix + variants.
It is not a typo (neither is it a grave accent as they appear over a
letter -- usually it's called a `backtick'). It diferentiates between
a starting and ending `quote'. I havn't tested for all commands but
most of cvs's error
Mark E. Hamilton writes:
Is this in fact a typo, or is there some other meaning/use for this
`name' pattern?
It's a well-established way of simulating ``real'' (typesetting) quote
marks using only standard ASCII characters. In fact, the original ASCII
standard even named the two characters
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Mark E. Hamilton wrote:
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:06:27 -0700
From: Mark E. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: info-cvs@gnu.org
Subject: Odd typo in update message?
I ran across the following typo in the output from 'cvs update', when it
is passed the name of a file
