From: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:04:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Documentation/user-manual.txt, asciidoc and "--" escapes
Message-ID: <20081112000445.GB17662@diku.dk>
In-Reply-To: <ddb82bf60811100214j4246cf25yc1263c2ae8cd10fc@mail.gmail.com>

Piotr Findeisen <piotr.findeisen@gmail.com> wrote Mon, Nov 10, 2008:
> > This would also fix the usage of "--" in the manpages, e.g.
> >
> >        You've now initialized the working directory--you may notice ...
> >
> > in gittutorial(7). On my setup, with "--" replaced with "—", I get the
> > following nroff code:
> 
> On my machine, make gittutorial.7 produces manpage that displays "--"
> in this place :)

At least you don't loose anything compared to the current behavior. ;)

> >        You've now initialized the working directory\(emyou may notice
> 
> Anyway, this may be a good idea to use unambiguous "—" (though people
> writing docs may be used to using "--" as a punctuation). I can run
> through the Documentation replacing "\w--\w" with m-dash, if you want.

I would like to see such a patch.

-- 
Jonas Fonseca