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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
	Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
	intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] docs: networking: device_drivers: fix bad usage of UTF-8 chars
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 12:24:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735utdt6z.fsf@meer.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJq9abOeuBla3Jiw@lunn.ch>

Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> writes:

>> -monitoring tools such as ifstat or sar –n DEV [interval] [number of samples]
>> +monitoring tools such as `ifstat` or `sar -n DEV [interval] [number of samples]`
>
> ...
>
>>  For example: min_rate 1Gbit 3Gbit: Verify bandwidth limit using network
>> -monitoring tools such as ifstat or sar –n DEV [interval] [number of samples]
>> +monitoring tools such as ``ifstat`` or ``sar -n DEV [interval] [number of samples]``
>
> Is there a difference between ` and `` ? Does it make sense to be
> consistent?

This is `just weird quotes`
This is ``literal text`` set in monospace in processed output.

There is a certain tension between those who want to see liberal use of
literal-text markup, and those who would rather have less markup in the
text overall; certainly, it's better not to go totally nuts with it.

jon

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org
Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 5/5] docs: networking: device_drivers: fix bad usage of UTF-8 chars
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 12:24:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735utdt6z.fsf@meer.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJq9abOeuBla3Jiw@lunn.ch>

Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> writes:

>> -monitoring tools such as ifstat or sar ?n DEV [interval] [number of samples]
>> +monitoring tools such as `ifstat` or `sar -n DEV [interval] [number of samples]`
>
> ...
>
>>  For example: min_rate 1Gbit 3Gbit: Verify bandwidth limit using network
>> -monitoring tools such as ifstat or sar ?n DEV [interval] [number of samples]
>> +monitoring tools such as ``ifstat`` or ``sar -n DEV [interval] [number of samples]``
>
> Is there a difference between ` and `` ? Does it make sense to be
> consistent?

This is `just weird quotes`
This is ``literal text`` set in monospace in processed output.

There is a certain tension between those who want to see liberal use of
literal-text markup, and those who would rather have less markup in the
text overall; certainly, it's better not to go totally nuts with it.

jon

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-11 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-11 15:01 [PATCH 0/5] Fix some UTF-8 bad usages Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-11 15:01 ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-11 15:01 ` [PATCH 1/5] docs: cdrom-standard.rst: get rid of uneeded UTF-8 chars Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-11 15:21   ` Jens Axboe
2021-05-11 15:01 ` [PATCH 2/5] docs: ABI: remove a meaningless UTF-8 character Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-11 15:01 ` [PATCH 3/5] docs: ABI: remove some spurious characters Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-11 15:01 ` [PATCH 4/5] docs: hwmon: tmp103.rst: fix bad usage of UTF-8 chars Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-11 18:55   ` Guenter Roeck
2021-05-12  5:33     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-11 15:01 ` [PATCH 5/5] docs: networking: device_drivers: " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-11 15:01   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-11 17:22   ` Andrew Lunn
2021-05-11 17:22     ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Andrew Lunn
2021-05-11 18:24     ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2021-05-11 18:24       ` Jonathan Corbet
2021-05-11 18:48       ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-05-11 18:48         ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Matthew Wilcox
2021-05-11 19:10         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-11 19:10           ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-11 17:01 ` [PATCH 0/5] Fix some UTF-8 bad usages Jonathan Corbet
2021-05-11 17:01   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Jonathan Corbet

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