From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: fix 'git status --help' character quoting Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:02:42 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1413728235-1504-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> <8D139BC1FB1E4335B4375FB0F056BB0B@PhilipOakley> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: "GitList" To: "Philip Oakley" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 20 22:03:17 2014 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 1XgJAi-0002dk-Pp for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 22:03:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753163AbaJTUDN (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:03:13 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp1.int.icgroup.com ([208.72.237.35]:54283 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751524AbaJTUDM (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:03:12 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A4D17DE0; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:03:10 -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=VrUhzw6t4/q9PJKMorzzXYRCsT0=; b=ortwD9 ngz4gN/DL8Y5qqzdGIU37wEqsD2wyjxlZ7hODB+tqj1YaZW5FAz/QmL91qGVJvt7 Fwfm0ljxMQtr309qq96AiogcWYpurKHihLa7vKDyCBCcyfXrnUqRl7AowP4IetbZ iqvlyQg2k/3hiieTrFegcj7TMgKilolg/xKys= 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=BHkJBmqW5se40XZ91sZ/ikIBJW89EtF+ eLJF3SkaQ2ufw1DQJPB3tqlWai1pyBj/4kcUb/1V3oCdWXRvob9it+2HCSlx1s5y MeFFF/nvLxjYslsOOu/qovxiuzd1AagWLEWnBSoaIIu9aWX52zvCZwzb+yTFrU3v 27FzE4sOCug= Received: from pb-smtp1. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689C117DDF; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:03:10 -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 D3A8717DC2; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:02:43 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:54:10 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 0DDA4654-5894-11E4-BA72-855A93717476-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Junio C Hamano writes: > "Philip Oakley" writes: > >> From: "Junio C Hamano" >> ... >>> I think it is just the font. I just opened the above page with >>> Chrome and futzed the text from '0' to '0123456789' to see how it >>> look. That round thing is consistent with how other digits are >>> rendered. >>> >>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JunioCHamano/posts/dzNXV2FwP6K >>> >>> (sorry for a URL to plus) >>> >>>> https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-status.html >>>> (which IIUC is out of date) has an unformatted 0. >>> -- >> >> I've just had a look at how it formats when the zero is back-tick >> quoted s /ASCII 0/ASCII `0`/ and it looks OK with both Chromium and >> Firefox on my hack Ubuntu laptop - the character is colourised and >> full sized, and the --man page output looks unchanged and clearly a >> zero. >> >> my hacky attempt at an in-line patch (squash in?) below: > > You'd need a matching change to 34 in the same document to preserve > the consistency the original patch sought, though ;-) Not that I think such a change makes much sense. If there was a way to force use of a font whose numerals and I/O are more clearly distinguishable and we do so for all HTML documents we generate, that would be a good change that is not limited to these places, though.