From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: don't link to example mail addresses
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:02:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121217120253.GA21858@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vehippg91.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 06:24:58PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I seem to be getting
>
> (<tt>`\cm@example.com''). `LT</tt> and <tt>GT</tt> are the literal less-than (\x3c)
>
> out of this part in the resulting HTML output, which is probably not
> what you wanted to see.
>
> I have a feeling that it might be a better solution to stop using
> these pretty quotes. It's not like we use them a lot and a quick
> scanning of "git grep '``'" output seems to tell me that many of
> them should be `monospace output`, and the rest (mostly references
> to section headers) can be "Section".
Typographically speaking, I would also be just as happy to use regular
double-quotes throughout. But here's an example where they also caused
a problem (which was fixed by moving to smart-quotes in f34e9ed):
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/163067
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-17 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-15 15:03 [PATCH] Documentation: don't link to example mail addresses John Keeping
2012-12-15 17:20 ` Jeff King
2012-12-15 18:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-15 18:24 ` John Keeping
2012-12-16 12:04 ` Jeff King
2012-12-16 14:00 ` [PATCH v2] " John Keeping
2012-12-16 18:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-17 2:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-17 12:02 ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-12-17 19:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-17 5:29 ` [PATCH] " Junio C Hamano
2012-12-17 9:44 ` John Keeping
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