From: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
To: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
Cc: "Util-Linux" <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/21] login-utils/login.1: Improve the typesetting of the manual
Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 15:02:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1399122138.2035.113244085.6EF15439@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1399084359-28425-5-git-send-email-bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
On Sat, May 3, 2014, at 4:32, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> Use a real apostrophe \(aq instead of ' (prints as a single right
> quote) or \' (prints as an acute accent)
Indeed, \' prints as an acute accent, which is not right, but for
me, on a terminal, ' is shown as ', as a plain apostrophe, 0x27
-- there is no need for \(aq there. And for people who actually
want to print a man page, I would have thought they would prefer
to see the curly U+2019 ("this is the preferred character to use
for apostrophe") instead of the straight U+0027.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Typographic_form
What makes you prefer the straight form in typeset documents?
Benno
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-03 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-03 2:32 [PATCH 17/21] login-utils/chfn.1: Improve the typesetting of the manual Bjarni Ingi Gislason
2014-05-03 2:32 ` [PATCH 18/21] login-utils/chsh.1: " Bjarni Ingi Gislason
2014-05-06 10:03 ` Karel Zak
2014-05-03 2:32 ` [PATCH 19/21] login-utils/last-deprecated.1: " Bjarni Ingi Gislason
2014-05-03 2:32 ` [PATCH 20/21] login-utils/last.1: " Bjarni Ingi Gislason
2014-05-03 12:44 ` Benno Schulenberg
2014-05-06 10:18 ` Karel Zak
2014-05-06 12:12 ` Benno Schulenberg
2014-05-03 2:32 ` [PATCH 21/21] login-utils/login.1: " Bjarni Ingi Gislason
2014-05-03 13:02 ` Benno Schulenberg [this message]
2014-05-06 10:03 ` [PATCH 17/21] login-utils/chfn.1: " Karel Zak
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