git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntax

From
TLTeemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date
Dec 20, 2008, 20:39 UTC
Message-ID
<87tz8yponl.fsf@iki.fi>
In-Reply-To
<7v3agiy5gs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
Junio C Hamano (2008-12-20 12:08 -0800) wrote:
> Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano, 20.12.2008:
>>> Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> writes:
>>> > -$ git show-branch --reflog='10,1 hour ago' --list master
>>> > +$ git show-branch --reflog="10,1 hour ago" --list master
Show 5 quoted lines
>>> Is this just a personal taste, or a correction to typography?
>>
>> When using single quotes, the manpage displayed backticks.
>
> It does not seem to do that to me:

The single quote (') in asciidoc turns into \' in the man page typesetting language and its meaning is acute accent (´, U+00B4). In Ascii-only environment \' is displayed as a single quote but it is still logically an acute accent. For example, my UTF-8 terminals as well as Postscript output (man -Tps) display \' as acute accent.

To get the logical single quote the man page source should contain \(aq or \[aq] . Don't know how to make asciidoc do this.

Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Markus Heidelberg
Message 5 of 9 in “Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntax”
  1. Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntaxMarkus Heidelberg, Dec 19, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 20, 2008
  3. Markus HeidelbergDec 20, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 20, 2008
  5. Teemu LikonenDec 20, 2008
  6. Markus HeidelbergDec 20, 2008
  7. Teemu LikonenDec 20, 2008
  8. Markus HeidelbergDec 20, 2008
  9. Teemu LikonenDec 20, 2008

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.