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 left and right single quotation marks > in ASCII. I don't like it. Neither do I. The problem is that in most computer fonts, ` and ' are not mirror images of each other. ` is angled, but ' is usually vertical. -- Barry Margolin, bar...@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
