RE: [Corpora-List] Encoding of apostrophes and quotes

From: Andy Roberts (andyr@comp.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 30 2006 - 17:51:29 MET DST

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    On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Hardie, Andrew wrote:

    > Another use of apostrophe to add to the pile: I've often encountered
    > two in a row used instead of a double quote.
    >

    I suspect that the LaTeX typesetting system has something to do with
    that. In a LaTeX source file, you can `single quote' and ``double
    quote''. When it is then processed into a proper document, these quotes
    are detected and the appropriate curly ones are displayed.

    Andy

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