From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Fix inconsistent quotes Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:13:53 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1430330932-10578-1-git-send-email-stefan@sevenbyte.org> <20150429185141.GA32207@peff.net> <20150429190946.GQ5467@google.com> <20150429200453.GA750@peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Jonathan Nieder , Stefan Tatschner , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 29 22:14:02 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YnYMq-0006J8-EQ for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:14:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751191AbbD2UN4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:13:56 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp1.int.icgroup.com ([208.72.237.35]:55716 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750788AbbD2UNz (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:13:55 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0AF94CE14; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:13:54 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=Juk39YZXJHmBzBnj9Z4V9tL85ZQ=; b=r1Wb1j yd2NllM8Y7MhUomVwqmqc70u+mgSbNjOII7BUniNuXQLLuexWwDmRbPp5dXvjiLj CAgnlJ/XTG3kgBmrkh/8mY9oTTOdRoGwfAO2iWmE4krNNLg+4SI+Cl3xHIfW6TcO cA98/FubvrQ8ISwn9slu6gfPGYXzK1Fg1Bo5c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=PsWZP9Jfd8p09tmuHLoLjKmknDAn+xV4 9/5ufnoDAY7HkJAFkifkiFVJTZA01YoauIdCG+ryEjc5TrYcjRMOOyCo0ymBWmed PJLvEqcuc34iYASTyx9Mx02rDP3vHLPv0EhpqZmFZHhaNxX99mfYgd1wDo30Df1I EuMrhxW7ME8= Received: from pb-smtp1.int.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9EBF4CE13; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:13:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 500FD4CE10; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:13:54 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20150429200453.GA750@peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:04:54 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 4261BC78-EEAC-11E4-95CF-83E09F42C9D4-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:09:46PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Jeff King wrote: >> >> > But IMHO, using backticks looks much better. In the roff-formatted >> > manpages single quotes underline, but backticks use bold. >> >> Are you sure? My copy of git.1.gz has backticks converted into no >> formatting at all: >> >> Other options are available to control how the manual page is displayed\&. See >> \fBgit-help\fR(1) >> for more information, because >> git \-\-help \&.\&.\&. >> is converted internally into >> git help \&.\&.\&.\&. > > It's actually optional. See 5121a6d (Documentation: option to render > literal text as bold for manpages, 2009-03-27). I don't see a good > reason that wasn't made the default early, except conservatism. I've had > it enabled for years (though I admit I don't read the manpages that much > these days :) ). Interesting. What I happen to use when populating the git-manpages repository would have wider impact to the users, as I hear that some (or many) distros just package whatever I have there. I do not mind enabling it on my end if that gives us more readable rendition.