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To: David Manuel Pires <slickymaster@xxxxxxxxx>
From: Hannie Dumoleyn <lafeber-dumoleyn2@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:08:48 +0200
Cc: "Manual, Maillijst" <ubuntu-manual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Op 11-04-13 00:25, David Manuel Pires schreef:

I have a quick question concerning the use of backticks and single quotes.
So my question on what situations are the use of backtips and singlequotes required, what's the requisite?

Hi David,

Good question, when to use quotation marks. I am forwarding thisquestion to the list.Here is a quote fromhttp://www.englishclub.com/writing/punctuation-quotation-marks.htm

We use quotation marks to show (or mark) the beginning and end of a wordor phrase that is somehow special or comes from outside the text that weare writing. Quotation marks can be double ("...") or single ('...') -that is really a matter of style (but see below for more about this).


Quotation marks are also called "quotes" or "inverted commas".


About the Latex markup I quote the following from our style guide:
otation marks otation marks in LATEX are entered as `` and '', not as
". Single quotation marks are entered as ` and '. otation marks for other
languages are entered as their Unicode characters.
Hannie