[PATCH] Quote ' as \(aq in manpages

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Oct 21, 2009, 08:24 UTC
Message-ID: <ab31eb03b25272341b91e1f1132dab9d8a49e5b6.1256113282.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <200910151402.56295.trast@student.ethz.ch>

The docbook/xmlto toolchain insists on quoting ' as \'. This does achieve the quoting goal, but modern 'man' implementations turn the apostrophe into a unicode "proper" apostrophe (given the right circumstances), breaking code examples in many of our manpages.

Quote them as \(aq instead, which is an "apostrophe quote" as per the groff_char manpage.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
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I've had this around since my last rant, and it actually gives good results with both setups I can test on, which are:

- asciidoc 8.4.5, docbook-xsl 1.75.2, xmlto 0.0.18
- asciidoc 8.2.7, docbook-xsl 1.73.2, xmlto 0.0.20

 Documentation/manpage-base.xsl |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/manpage-base.xsl b/Documentation/manpage-base.xsl
index a264fa6..bf74bb7 100644
--- a/Documentation/manpage-base.xsl
+++ b/Documentation/manpage-base.xsl
@@ -7,6 +7,15 @@
 <xsl:param name="man.output.quietly" select="1"/>
 <xsl:param name="refentry.meta.get.quietly" select="1"/>
 
+<xsl:template name="escape.apostrophe">
+  <xsl:param name="content"/>
+  <xsl:call-template name="string.subst">
+    <xsl:with-param name="string" select="$content"/>
+    <xsl:with-param name="target">'</xsl:with-param>
+    <xsl:with-param name="replacement">\(aq</xsl:with-param>
+  </xsl:call-template>
+</xsl:template>
+
 <!-- convert asciidoc callouts to man page format;
      git.docbook.backslash and git.docbook.dot params
      must be supplied by another XSL file or other means -->

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