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Re: [PATCH 3/6] doc: typeset -- as litteral

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 27, 2016, 19:10 UTC
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<20160627191005.GD9594@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<20160627174623.11084-3-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 07:46:20PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] doc: typeset -- as litteral
s/litteral/literal/

I can hardly blame you, though. I think English stole the word from French and then switched its spelling. :)

You may also want put quotes around "--" to make it clear that you are talking about it as punctuation, not using it as such in your sentence.

I read all the way through patch 6, and they all look good to me (though the "litteral" typo appears again later). I won't bother responding to each separately.

I do notice that your patterns are finding existing items marked with single-quotes. We may have other cases lurking that are not quoted at all (but should be). I think those could be a separate series, but if anybody wants to look for them, I think searching for "\--" will help (a literal double-dash needs that to avoid becoming an emdash).

-Peff
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  1. 1/6 doc: typeset short command-line options as literalMatthieu Moy, Jun 27, 2016
  2. 3/6 doc: typeset -- as litteralMatthieu Moy, Jun 27, 2016
  3. Jeff KingJun 27, 2016
  4. Matthieu MoyJun 28, 2016
  5. 4/6 doc: typeset long options with argument as litteralMatthieu Moy, Jun 27, 2016
  6. 5/6 CodingGuidelines: formatting HEAD in documentationMatthieu Moy, Jun 27, 2016
  7. 6/6 doc: typeset HEAD and variants as litteralMatthieu Moy, Jun 27, 2016
  8. 2/6 doc: typeset long command-line options as literalMatthieu Moy, Jun 27, 2016
  9. Jeff KingJun 27, 2016
  10. Matthieu MoyJun 28, 2016
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2016
  12. Jeff KingJun 27, 2016
  13. Matthieu MoyJun 28, 2016
  14. 0/7 literal formatting in documentationMatthieu Moy, Jun 28, 2016
  15. 7/7 doc: typeset HEAD and variants as literalMatthieu Moy, Jun 28, 2016
  16. 5/7 doc: typeset long options with argument as literalMatthieu Moy, Jun 28, 2016
  17. 1/7 Documentation/git-mv.txt: fix whitespace indentationMatthieu Moy, Jun 28, 2016
  18. 4/7 doc: typeset '--' as literalMatthieu Moy, Jun 28, 2016
  19. 3/7 doc: typeset long command-line options as literalMatthieu Moy, Jun 28, 2016
  20. 6/7 CodingGuidelines: formatting HEAD in documentationMatthieu Moy, Jun 28, 2016
  21. 2/7 doc: typeset short command-line options as literalMatthieu Moy, Jun 28, 2016
  22. Jeff KingJun 30, 2016

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