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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Stefan Tatschner <stefan@sevenbyte.org>,
	gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Fix inconsistent quotes
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 12:09:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150429190946.GQ5467@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150429185141.GA32207@peff.net>

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 \&.\&.\&.\&.

Thanks,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-29 19:09 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
2015-04-29 19:09   ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
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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