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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:20:44 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
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> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 04:04:53 -0500
> From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> ... snip ...
> > 
> > Also, file names like ctype.h should havee the @file markup, and
> > "whatever" should be ``whatever''.
> 
> It always annoys me when I see '' in places where I consider " to
> be appropriate.  There must be a reason for doing this.  What is
> it?

In this case, TeX will typeset ``foo'' prettier than "foo" (it will
use left and right double-quotation marks) for the printed version of
the manual, while makeinfo will convert this to "foo" in the on-line
manual.

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