From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:56:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Back quote typo in error messages (?)
Message-ID: <20170215215633.deyxp76j7o3ceoq3@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAOxYW4xqk4j6Uu86jq2Vi9Bpgihxfr2Tw-DQLc+7YTZiPmDtiA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 09:51:30PM +0000, Fabrizio Cucci wrote:

> > Some people use the matched backtick/single-quote to emulate the
> > non-symmetric start/end quotes used in traditional typography (and in
> > fact, ``foo'' in languages like asciidoc are typically rendered using
> > smart-quotes).
> 
> I definitely didn't know about the use of them in traditional typography!
> But I couldn't find any example of non-symmetric quotes in AsciiDoc...

Grep for "``" in Git's documentation directory, and you will see many
examples (asciidoc only accepts the double-quote form, not singles).

You can also try:

  echo "this is \`\`quoted'' text" >foo.txt
  asciidoc foo.txt

and then open "foo.html" in your browser.

> > I don't know how much we care about standardizing that punctuation.
> 
> I mentioned it was very minor but, still, in my opinion a project like
> Git deserves consistent punctuation! :)

I think patches would be welcome, but as Junio said, it probably should
wait for the next cycle.

-Peff