From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on archive.lwn.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE,URIBL_SBL, URIBL_SBL_A autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by archive.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A7B7DCEA for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2019 18:49:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726943AbfF1SsI (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jun 2019 14:48:08 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:35956 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726702AbfF1SsG (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jun 2019 14:48:06 -0400 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A2AE75A0; Fri, 28 Jun 2019 18:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:48:04 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Stephen Kitt Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code Message-ID: <20190628124804.5ce44f04@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20190628203841.723ccd9c@heffalump.sk2.org> References: <20190627135938.3722-1-steve@sk2.org> <20190628091021.457d0301@lwn.net> <20190628203841.723ccd9c@heffalump.sk2.org> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 20:38:41 +0200 Stephen Kitt wrote: > Right, looking further shows a large number of places where -- is handled > incorrectly. The following patch disables this “smart” handling wholesale; > I’ll follow up (in the next few days) with patches to use real em- and > en-dashes where appropriate. Thanks for figuring that out, it seems like the right thing to do. Let's not worry about "real" dashes for now. Not everybody welcomes non-ascii characters in the docs and, for dashes, it's something I deemed not worth fighting about. Thanks, jon