On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Julie Sullivan <kernelmail.jms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > Thank you kindly list. -- Cheers - zeal _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
