On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:12 PM, mechanical amit <mechanicalamit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Jul 16, 2011 7:50 PM, "zeal" <zealcook@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi list, >> >> We often see that `a word what you like'. But i get confused on it. >> Why is it `word' but not 'word' or what else? > It might be a carry over from the tex/latex world. In tex/latex a backtick > ` is used to open a quote a forward tick ' is used to close it. Similarly a > double backtick `` for opening double quotes and two forward ticks '' for > closing double quotes. This way tex/latex is absolutely sure that you want > opening or closing braces. > > Regards > Amit >> Well done for deciphering the question, Amit! ;-) Zeal, this isn't a kernelnewbies question so isn't really appropriate for this mailing list, but having said that it is kind of difficult googling for punctuation marks when you don't know what they are called :-). So you might find this helpful; the punctuation mark ` is also known as a backquote or a grave accent (as well as a backtick as Amit pointed out) and here is a link to it on Wikipedia. There's some info on its use in various programming contexts at the bottom of the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent Cheers Julie _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
