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Re: origin of `notation'
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Buchs, Kevin |
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Re: origin of `notation' |
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Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:51:53 -0600 |
Thanks, Bob Proulx and Eli Zaretskii for your responses to my question:
> In emacs documentation, what is the origin of using the accent
> grave (backtick) to introduce a quoted phrase, often a command,
> while using an apostrophe to terminate it.
I have recorded the information provided here:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsDocumentationNotation
My follow-up question is why it is still used for online documentation when
emacs can do such wonderful things with fonts in graphical mode. Why not just
produce italics or color?
Kevin Buchs | Senior Engineer | Department of Physiology and Biomedical
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