Re: Back quote typo in error messages (?)

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 16, 2017, 19:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20170216190200.h362e52uxqlkduar@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAOxYW4x93cjMJoXYzSXCwqYVEstSLLcxzad_BPdvxfasrkxapw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 06:41:26PM +0000, Fabrizio Cucci wrote:

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> On 15 February 2017 at 21:56, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> We are probably going a bit OT here :) but AFAIK there is no such
> thing as non-symmetric start/end quotes in AsciiDoc.
> 
> Even enclosing something in curved quotes is done as follows:
> 
> '`single curved quotes`'
> 
> "`double curved quotes`"
> 
> (http://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-syntax-quick-reference/)

Try the "Quoted Text" section of the original asciidoc user manual:

  http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X51

Asciidoctor has introduced some new syntax (almost certainly because the original asymmetric formulations have a bunch of ambiguous corner cases). By default, it disables the asymmetric versions, but they work in "compat" mode (and the newer ones do not).

Git's documentation is all written for the original asciidoc. If you build it with asciidoctor, it must be done in compat mode. This is the default when asciidoctor sees a two-line (i.e., underlined) section title, which all of our manpages have.

More details at:

  http://asciidoctor.org/docs/migration/#migration-cheatsheet

Yes, we are off-topic,. but I think it is worth clarifying Git's asciidoc compatibility expectations. :)

-Peff