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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: markus.heidelberg@web.de, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntax
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:18:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d4fmpmte.fsf@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tz8yponl.fsf@iki.fi> (Teemu Likonen's message of "Sat\, 20 Dec 2008 22\:39\:10 +0200")

Teemu Likonen (2008-12-20 22:39 +0200) wrote:

> To get the logical single quote the man page source should contain \(aq
> or \[aq] . Don't know how to make asciidoc do this.

But \(aq seems to be groff-specific and not necessarily portable. Oh
well, quotation marks are really a mess in man pages. Some reference:

    http://www.mail-archive.com/groff@gnu.org/msg04150.html

But char " should be reliable anyway. It renders as Ascii double quote.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-20 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-19 12:14 [PATCH] Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntax Markus Heidelberg
2008-12-20  6:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-20 13:18   ` Markus Heidelberg
2008-12-20 20:08     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-20 20:39       ` Teemu Likonen
2008-12-20 21:02         ` Markus Heidelberg
2008-12-20 21:18         ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2008-12-20 21:13       ` Markus Heidelberg
2008-12-20 21:37         ` Teemu Likonen

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