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OT, but why did you use a backtick for your 'quotes'? Is that an OS or keyboard thing, or a personal preference, or what? I've never been able to determine th

by wensing 17y ago

OT, but why did you use a backtick for your 'quotes'? Is that an OS or keyboard thing, or a personal preference, or what? I've never been able to determine the rhyme or reason on that.

spicyj 17y ago
Presumably it's the ASCII-man’s way of doing “curly” quotation marks.
kd5bjo 17y ago
In TeX, backticks are used for open quotes, and straight ones are used for close quotes. That's where I picked up the habit originally.
- david 17y ago
  It looks much more natural in fixed-width fonts too, using quotes like that here kind of defeats the purpose.
- deleted 17y ago
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- eru 17y ago
  Yes, I am TeX-damaged. A friend of mine even tends to use \"u for an umlaut.
seiji 17y ago
See: http://www.public.asu.edu/~arrows/tidbits/quotes.html http://www.public.asu.edu/~arrows/tidbits/quotes.html English keyboards don't have the nice typographical up/down quote marks and using « » just looks strange... so we hack it with `quotes.'
- deleted 17y ago
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- eru 17y ago
  Neither do German keyboards have the nice German quote marks. You can fake them like ,,this'' however.