From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:09:46 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Fix inconsistent quotes Message-ID: <20150429190946.GQ5467@google.com> In-Reply-To: <20150429185141.GA32207@peff.net> Hi, Jeff King wrote: > But IMHO, using backticks looks much better. In the roff-formatted > manpages single quotes underline, but backticks use bold. Are you sure? My copy of git.1.gz has backticks converted into no formatting at all: Other options are available to control how the manual page is displayed\&. See \fBgit-help\fR(1) for more information, because git \-\-help \&.\&.\&. is converted internally into git help \&.\&.\&.\&. Thanks, Jonathan