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Re: [TIP] Get rid of the `foo' eyesore
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Florian Weimer |
Subject: |
Re: [TIP] Get rid of the `foo' eyesore |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:17:04 +0200 |
Edward Dodge <someone@g3.com> writes:
> That horrible abuse of single-quotation marks seems to be a hold-over
> of TeX. Essentially, it's TeX's way of printing "smartquotes,"
> where ` is the 6-shaped quote-mark and ' prints as the 9-shaped one.
This is just a consequence of the traditional ASCII representation of
TeX input. Twenty years ago, "`" probably showed up as a left
quotation mark on people's terminals (Computer Modern Typewriter
reflects this).