From: "Buchs, Kevin" <buchs.kevin@mayo.edu>
To: <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: origin of `notation'
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:51:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F326B9A37B353A449FC7A09B36835F82DEC2A3@MACE.sppdg.ad> (raw)
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 Engineering - SPPDG
507-538-5459 | buchs.kevin@mayo.edu | http://www.mayo.edu/sppdg
Mayo Clinic | 200 1st St. SW | Rochester, MN 55905
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2011-11-17 15:51 Buchs, Kevin [this message]
2011-11-17 16:55 ` origin of `notation' Eli Zaretskii
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2011-11-14 20:22 Buchs, Kevin
2011-11-14 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-14 21:14 ` Bob Proulx
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