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Re: [PATCH] git-rm.txt: Fix quoting

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 7, 2010, 16:43 UTC
Message-ID
<20101207164315.GA21749@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 10:07:11AM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:
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> Literal " produces typographically incorrect quotations, but "works" in
> most circumstances. In the subheadings of git-rm.txt, it "works" for the
> html backend but not for the docbook conversion to nroff: double "" and
> spurious double spaces appear in the output.
> 
> Replace "incorrect" quotations by ``correct'' ones, and fix other
> "quotations" which are really `code fragments`.
> 
> This should make git-rm.txt "-clean.
Thanks, this is a much better solution than what I posted earlier.
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> We still have a lingering inconsistency for denoting code fragments.
> Single backticks merely are a literal monospaced environment; html outputcolors
> this, nroff does not indicate it at all. I'm staying consistent with the
> surrounding text here.
Try setting MAN_BOLD_LITERAL in your config.mak.
-Peff
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  2. Michael J GruberDec 7, 2010
  3. git-rm.txt: Fix quotingMichael J Gruber, Dec 7, 2010
  4. Jeff KingDec 7, 2010
  5. Michael J GruberDec 8, 2010
  6. Jonathan NiederDec 7, 2010
  7. Jeff KingDec 7, 2010
  8. [PATCHv2] git-rm.txt: Fix quotingMichael J Gruber, Dec 8, 2010
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