Re: [PATCH] Documentation: use {asterisk} in rev-list-options.txt when needed

From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Feb 28, 2012, 23:03 UTC
Message-ID: <87hayar25i.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20120228194551.GC11725@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Anyway, that is not a problem with your patch. :) I confirmed that the
> bug happens in my version of the toolchain, and your fix works (I also
> tried using `*`, but backtick does not suppress markup.

Actually it would, if it weren't for our use of '-a no-inline-literal'. Which we are using because the "backticks do not interpret {stuff}" feature was introduced in a backwards-incompatible way in asciidoc 8.4.1, see 71c020c (Disable asciidoc 8.4.1+ semantics for `{plus}` and friends, 2009-07-25).

Some googling tells me the distros are currently at

  openSuSE         8.4.5   (local)
  Debian (stable)  8.5.2   packages.debian.org
  Fedora           8.4.5   admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
                           (but I can't discern whether it's actually in there...)
  Arch             8.6.6   www.archlinux.org/packages/
  Ubuntu 11.10     8.6.4   packages.ubuntu.com

so perhaps the time has come to remove that switch?

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch