On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:10:21 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 15:59:38 +0200 > > The current ReStructuredText formatting results in "--", used to > > indicate the end of the kernel command-line parameters, appearing as > > an en-dash instead of two hyphens; this patch formats them as code, > > "``--``", as done elsewhere in the documentation. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt > > A worthy fix, I've applied it. This seems like the sort of annoyance that > will bite us over and over, though. We might want to find a more > comprehensive way to turn this behavior off. Right, looking further shows a large number of places where -- is handled incorrectly. The following patch disables this “smart” handling wholesale; I’ll follow up (in the next few days) with patches to use real em- and en-dashes where appropriate. Regards, Stephen From 3b10d01decfec38a124be75739b398a3dcd9d5ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Kitt Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 20:34:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output The handling of dashes in particular results in confusing documentation in a number of instances, since "--" becomes an en-dash. This disables SmartyPants wholesale, losing smart quotes along with smart dashes. With Sphinx 1.6 we could fine-tune the conversion, using the new smartquotes and smartquotes_action settings. Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt --- Documentation/conf.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py index 7ace3f8852bd..966dbdfafcd1 100644 --- a/Documentation/conf.py +++ b/Documentation/conf.py @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ html_context = { # If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to # typographically correct entities. -#html_use_smartypants = True +html_use_smartypants = False # Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names. #html_sidebars = {} -- 2.11.0