#🔒 Usage of " `<text>' " quotation style

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somber harness
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I have seen this style in numerous places (occasionally within Python docstrings, documentation of other languages, and even in GRUB). Does anybody know why this style of starting with a back tick and ending with a single quote is sometimes used?

placid monolithBOT
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unique ember
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because Markdown is popular

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also right here on Discord it lets you display text in fixed-width font

rich kindle
somber harness
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@unique ember @rich kindle Sorry, I found the reason but I forgot to close the issue. For those of you wondering, this typographic quotation style:

`hello'

which is commonly used in man pages, is just a common way to represent curly/book quotes in ASCII.

rich kindle
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oh that, okay

unique ember
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bleah

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I wouldn't call that "common"

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in fact I'm not sure I've ever seen it.

somber harness
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I mean, it's everywhere in man pages and it's used for double quotes in latex

unique ember
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Beats the hell out of "smart quotes" though 🙂

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ah, I don't use LaTeX and I've never noticed it in man pages

somber harness
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Ah

unique ember
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see the section `Compatibility' below.

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who knew

somber harness
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!close

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