From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Cc: bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: quote in help code example
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:02:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910151402.56295.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910132215.46840.trast@student.ethz.ch>
Thomas Rast wrote:
>
> The patch below just replaces said template with a no-op for git's
> manpage creation. I have not been able to substantiate the claim that
> apostrophes are special, and in fact with the patch my manpages look
> fine. Then again I don't know anything about roff syntax either, and
> manuals seem a bit hard to come by.
Actually, scratch the patch. I haven't been able to nail it yet, and
I'm not sure I have the energy for another stab at this mess; but
during testing with older versions, I learned that they behave
differently and the patch just shifts the breakage a bit.
Also, the single quotes are apparently special at the beginning of a
line and to delimit function arguments, though not elsewhere. The
bash manpage uses \(aq to get a literal apostrophe, which I will aim
to convert them to. Oddly enough, the groff(7) manpage does not
document \(aq, but lists \(cq as the official escape for ' ... which
then turns out to mutate into this cursed non-apostrophe again. Sigh.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-15 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-12 10:29 quote in help code example bill lam
2009-10-12 19:40 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-10-13 2:16 ` bill lam
2009-10-13 10:19 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-10-13 14:06 ` bill lam
2009-10-13 15:30 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-10-13 20:15 ` Thomas Rast
2009-10-15 12:02 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2009-10-21 8:24 ` [PATCH] Quote ' as \(aq in manpages Thomas Rast
2009-10-21 10:38 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-10-21 18:01 ` Anders Kaseorg
2009-10-21 18:57 ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Rast
2009-10-21 21:31 ` [PATCH] Document GNU_ROFF in Makefile Miklos Vajna
2009-10-21 22:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-21 22:51 ` Anders Kaseorg
2009-10-22 8:19 ` [PATCH v3] Quote ' as \(aq in manpages Thomas Rast
2009-10-21 21:42 ` [PATCH v2] " Anders Kaseorg
2009-10-12 21:06 ` quote in help code example Junio C Hamano
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