Parentheses

[David Vaughan]

On 23/02/2004, at 9:00, FlexibleLearning at aol.com wrote:

> From: FlexibleLearning at aol.com
> Date: 23 February 2004 5:20:08 GMT+11:00
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: PARENTHESES
> Reply-To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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> Your right about the ^ being a caret/carrot.
> But what then are the left and right angle brackets called besides left
> and right brackets or less than/greater than???
>
> any ideas???

The nearest to a formal name for left and right angle brackets is 
guillemet. Normally, these appear as << >> and are used in European 
languages but the single form, a single guillement, is also used in 
typography. However, the guillemet is actually quite a bit smaller than 
the angle bracket used in most computer character sets while 
typographers also use a taller, less-angled version called.... well 
actually I don't know what that one is called (Tall Guillemet? Slim 
Guille?), so someone still has room to enlighten me. It seems perfectly 
good to me to keep calling them left and right angle brackets, or else 
you will sound like you are navigating in a rally for a manic in a 
Citroen.

cheers
David
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