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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: "Jonathan Neuschäfer" <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: process: changes.rst: Escape --version to fix Sphinx output
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 11:08:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200224110815.6f7561d1@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200223222228.27089-1-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>

On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 23:22:27 +0100
Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> wrote:

> Without double-backticks, Sphinx wrongly turns "--version" into
> "–version" with a Unicode EN DASH (U+2013), that is visually easy to
> confuse with a single ASCII dash.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>

This certainly seems worth addressing.  But I would *really* rather find
a way to tell Sphinx not to do that rather than making all of these
tweaks - which we will certainly find ourselves having to do over and
over again.  I can try to look into that in a bit, but if somebody were
to beat me to it ... :)

Thanks,

jon

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-24 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-23 22:22 [PATCH] docs: process: changes.rst: Escape --version to fix Sphinx output Jonathan Neuschäfer
2020-02-24 18:08 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2020-02-24 18:47   ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
2020-02-24 18:52     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-02-24 18:58       ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-02-24 19:12         ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-02-24 21:08           ` Randy Dunlap
2020-02-24 21:10             ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-02-25  9:15               ` Jani Nikula

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