From: Philip Oakley Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 22:08:53 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: fix 'git status --help' character quoting Message-ID: In-Reply-To: From: "Junio C Hamano" > Junio C Hamano writes: > >> "Philip Oakley" writes: >> >>> From: "Junio C Hamano" >>> ... >>>> I think it is just the font. I just opened the above page with >>>> Chrome and futzed the text from '0' to '0123456789' to see how it >>>> look. That round thing is consistent with how other digits are >>>> rendered. >>>> >>>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JunioCHamano/posts/dzNXV2FwP6K >>>> >>>> (sorry for a URL to plus) >>>> >>>>> https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-status.html >>>>> (which IIUC is out of date) has an unformatted 0. >>>> -- >>> >>> I've just had a look at how it formats when the zero is back-tick >>> quoted s /ASCII 0/ASCII `0`/ and it looks OK with both Chromium and >>> Firefox on my hack Ubuntu laptop - the character is colourised and >>> full sized, and the --man page output looks unchanged and clearly a >>> zero. >>> >>> my hacky attempt at an in-line patch (squash in?) below: >> >> You'd need a matching change to 34 in the same document to preserve >> the consistency the original patch sought, though ;-) > > Not that I think such a change makes much sense. > > If there was a way to force use of a font whose numerals and I/O are > more clearly distinguishable and we do so for all HTML documents we > generate, that would be a good change that is not limited to these > places, though. > I've generated a patch for the 'git status --help' that can act as a reference. (to follow) For me it's only those pages that have a lone zero that cause problems due to lack of context. It'll still be a slow burner problem as lone zeros are spotted. Philip