[Corpora-List] Encoding of apostrophes and quotes

[Andy Roberts]

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