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[?] Meaning of symbol ` ?

Posted 8 years ago

Hello everyone. What is the meaning of the symbol `? How can I get it with keyboard?

Thank you in advance.

POSTED BY: Gennaro Arguzzi
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Hi @Kuba Podkalicki , your explanation is excellent. Thank you very much for your help.

POSTED BY: Gennaro Arguzzi
POSTED BY: Kuba Podkalicki
Posted 8 years ago

In a normal US Keyboard layout, the backtick can usually be found above the Tab key and to the left of the 1 key:

QWERTY keyboard

The reason I asked about keyboard layouts is that sometimes the OS also imposes its own keyboard layout. To change this, there are OS-specific instructions.

For Windows, see this, for Linux see this, and for Mac see this.

POSTED BY: J. M.

The character code is

In[1]:= ToCharacterCode["`"]
Out[1]= {96}

So, you may enter it by pressing the key combination: Alt+9+6.

Hi @J.M. My keyboard layout is qwerty. On my keyboard there isn't the symbol ` . There is only ' .

POSTED BY: Gennaro Arguzzi

Hi. There are many examples. The last is:

StringTemplate["a is ``, b is ``"][5555, 6666]
POSTED BY: Gennaro Arguzzi

It depends on where you are using it. Please give an example. @Sander Huisman wrote a great list of the various symbols and their meaning.

Sander -- could you post that list as a PDF in the other thread? I think it would be tremendously useful-- I keep the link around on my system as a reminder "cheat" sheet.

Regards

POSTED BY: Neil Singer
Posted 8 years ago

Can you look at your system settings and check what keyboard layout you are using?

POSTED BY: J. M.
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