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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (beta) now available
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:48:32 -0200
> >> Is there any historical reason for that use of the backtick in quotes?
> >> I always found it kind of odd. Does its use came fro TeX ?
> >
> > It is related to old X fonts. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
> >
> > - Jörg
>
> That was a very interesting read, thank you for the link!
Indeed! That was exactly our story (it looked nice until one day it did
not), but I had never seen it described before.
-- Roberto
- References:
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (beta) now available, Paige DePol
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (beta) now available, Dirk Laurie
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (beta) now available, Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (beta) now available, Paige DePol
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (beta) now available, Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (beta) now available, Paige DePol
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (beta) now available, Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (beta) now available, Ignacio Burgueño
- RE: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (beta) now available, Richter, Jörg
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (beta) now available, Paige DePol
