From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:54635 "EHLO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751121AbaECNCT (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2014 09:02:19 -0400 Message-Id: <1399122138.2035.113244085.6EF15439@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Benno Schulenberg To: Bjarni Ingi Gislason Cc: "Util-Linux" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain In-Reply-To: <1399084359-28425-5-git-send-email-bjarniig@rhi.hi.is> References: <1399084359-28425-1-git-send-email-bjarniig@rhi.hi.is> <1399084359-28425-5-git-send-email-bjarniig@rhi.hi.is> Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/21] login-utils/login.1: Improve the typesetting of the manual Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 15:02:18 +0200 Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail...