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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone
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Nicolas Ruiz |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone |
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Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:26:02 -0400 |
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Lapo Luchini wrote:
> Don't know for spanish or french, but in italian the «» seems to be more
> specific to quote "a text" or a piece of speech, while '' is more
> correct to quote "a single word or sentence".
Same in spanish. Single quotes is the preferred method to make an
unstranslated word or sentence stand out, like '--branch' or when
marking a file name.
>
> In computer science speech I'd say that:
> « = push context, create a wholly new context
> » = pop context
> 'x' = take "x" from a different context and talk about it here
>
> In this regard, '' seems more correct to quote a file name to me...
> (in italian!!! I don't know about spanish or french, it may be
> completely different of course!!).
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- [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, (continued)
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Zack Weinberg, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Thomas Moschny, 2007/03/15
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Thomas Moschny, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Alvaro Herrera, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Nicolas Ruiz, 2007/03/17
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Alvaro Herrera, 2007/03/17
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Nicolas Ruiz, 2007/03/17
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2007/03/18
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- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Zack Weinberg, 2007/03/15
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2007/03/16
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Justin Patrin, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Zack Weinberg, 2007/03/15
Re: [Monotone-devel] Messages in monotone, Thomas Moschny, 2007/03/15
Re: [Monotone-devel] Messages in monotone, Nathaniel Smith, 2007/03/15