From: "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: render dash correctly
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:19:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0heSo6poJMNSmJ2Vwy2ecrW3YRc0E5VYLH22fXUgnqfx_TAA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqcz76qizp.fsf@gitster.g>
On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 at 23:55, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Three hyphens are rendered verbatim in documentation, so "--" has to be
> > used to produce a dash.
>
> Sad but true. I suspect folks with TeX background were so
> accustomed to type three dashes to obtain em dash, but with AsciiDoc
> (and asciidoctor), sadly, two dashes is a way to ask for em dash.
>
> The changes in your patch look all reasonable to me at the source
> level; I didn't do Documentation/doc-diff to verify, though.
doc-diff looks good.
I suspect these were identified by greping for " --- ", spaces included.
We seem to have some "---" that aren't surrounded by spaces. They're
perhaps a bit more tedious to find, but I see there are two in
gitformat-signature.txt and technical/rerere.txt. Maybe it would be
worthwhile addressing them too in this patch.
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-23 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-22 16:56 [PATCH] Documentation: render dash correctly Andrei Rybak
2023-01-22 22:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-23 8:19 ` Martin Ågren [this message]
2023-01-23 9:01 ` [PATCH v2] " Andrei Rybak
2023-01-23 11:04 ` Martin Ågren
2023-01-23 17:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-23 18:52 ` Andrei Rybak
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