Re: Chevrons [getting OT]
Re: Chevrons [getting OT]
- Subject: Re: Chevrons [getting OT]
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 17:58:56 +0100
At 17:16 +0100 4/01/01, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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Don't you use chevrons - guillemets - in French for quoting, at least
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in a literary context?
Only in literary context - though it's considered classically an
"anglicism" to use the English quotes.
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no, they're option-h (e-grave), shift-option-e-grave, where 7 is on a US
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keyboard.
That's exactly it.
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you mean! It's interesting to see that, what with all the extra accented
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characters you need every day in French, the numbers are relegated to the
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shift-keyboard. Do you use them, or do you tend to use the number pad
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instead?
We do use them ... when we have no numeric pad.
You understand now why most French programmers are also skillful pianists :)
Emmanuel