From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Stefan Tatschner <stefan@sevenbyte.org>
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Fix inconsistent quotes
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:51:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150429185141.GA32207@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1430330932-10578-1-git-send-email-stefan@sevenbyte.org>
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 08:08:52PM +0200, Stefan Tatschner wrote:
> While reading 'man git' I realized that the highlighting of the
> environment variables is not consistent. This patch adds missing single
> quotes and substitutes backticks with the proper quotes as well.
I think this is OK in that it makes things consistent, and chooses the
style that is already in the majority.
But IMHO, using backticks looks much better. In the roff-formatted
manpages single quotes underline, but backticks use bold. The former is
hard to read when the content has underscores. For the HTML, the single
quotes produce italics, versus a typewriter font for backticks. Which
is...OK, I guess, but I think I like the backtick behavior better.
I think we're wildly inconsistent about this throughout the
documentation, though.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-29 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-29 18:08 [PATCH] Documentation: Fix inconsistent quotes Stefan Tatschner
2015-04-29 18:51 ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-04-29 19:09 ` Jonathan Nieder
2015-04-29 20:04 ` Jeff King
2015-04-29 20:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-29 20:32 ` Jeff King
2015-05-14 9:14 ` Stefan Tatschner
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