From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
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 16:04:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150429200453.GA750@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150429190946.GQ5467@google.com>
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 :) ).
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-29 20:05 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
2015-04-29 20:04 ` Jeff King [this message]
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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