Re: FAQ question

From: Chris F.A. Johnson (cfajohnson_at_gmail.com)
Date: 04/27/05 

Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:46:20 -0400

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 at 10:24 GMT, Loki Harfagr wrote:
> Le Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:03:29 -0500, Ed Morton a écrit :
>
>> Here is hopefully the final version of this proposed FAQ update. Speak
>> now or forever hold your peace....
>
> So I'll try and speak now, no peace for the restless !-)
>
> No problem in the content, as far as I could see, remember, check.
>
> Just a remark, a proposal on readability, like in most documents dealing
> with vars, names, arrays, strings and all the fishes.
>
> Wouldn't it be good to use the quoting `...' for quotations or emphasis
> like in :
>
>> A) Short answer = either of these, where "svar" is a shell variable
>> and "avar" is an awk variable:
>
> So it'd read :
>
>> A) Short answer = either of these, where `svar' is a shell variable
>> and `avar' is an awk variable:

    With many fonts, the two symbols do not look like open and close
    quotes, and the result is more bizarre than helpful. 

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