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are never used except in the special senses defined above.

18. Quote marks may be rendered explicitly as open and close quote marks with the sequences `single quotes' or ``double quotes''. As long as quotes are balanced within a paragraph, the ASCII quote character `"' may be used. Alternating occurrences of this character will be typeset as open and close quote characters. The open/close quote state is reset at the start of each paragraph, limiting the scope of errors to a single paragraph and permitting ``continuation quotes'' when multiple paragraphs are quoted.

A program to translate Etexts prepared in this format into:

LaTeX (and thence to PostScript or PDF, if you wish)
HTML for posting on the Web
or Palm Reader format for handhelds

may be downloaded from:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/etset/

The program is in the public domain and includes complete source code.

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PEOPLE OF AFRICA
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by Edith A. How, B.A.