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Formatting nit: quoting


From: Just van Rossum
Subject: Formatting nit: quoting
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:59:23 +0100

Werner,

Thanks to the CVS messages, I see that you use this style of quotes in
comments:

  `quote'

1) I know this is a common habit, but strictly speaking it is wrong: the
backtick is defined as "GRAVE ACCENT". I know that some fonts have a
reverse quote in that position, but that is wrong, too...

2) I know it is a common habit, but it happens to look pretty awful with
the fonts I use: in small sizes the ' character is a small vertical line,
the ` is a small diagonal line. (Currently I'm looking at Verdana, but the
font I use for C code has the same properties.)

3) I think it's a misplaced attempt to create nice typography with a tool
(ie. the ascii char set) that isn't capable of doing so. It's abusing the
visual properties of certain fonts that are definitely not standard.

I just thought you'd like to know ;-)

Just





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