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| author | Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> | 2009-10-22 10:19:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-10-22 12:59:50 -0700 |
| commit | 204d363f5a05bba0bdeb13f96a08d5078dcee820 (patch) | |
| tree | 65c9269eb12da5038ff06b07cbf877c86218bfc5 /Documentation | |
| parent | ba7e81430a32614982172c7064c01db43f55b4bb (diff) | |
| download | git-204d363f5a05bba0bdeb13f96a08d5078dcee820.tar.gz git-204d363f5a05bba0bdeb13f96a08d5078dcee820.tar.xz | |
Quote ' as \(aq in manpages
The docbook/xmlto toolchain insists on quoting ' as \'. This does
achieve the quoting goal, but modern 'man' implementations turn the
apostrophe into a unicode "proper" apostrophe (given the right
circumstances), breaking code examples in many of our manpages.
Quote them as \(aq instead, which is an "apostrophe quote" as per the
groff_char manpage.
Unfortunately, as Anders Kaseorg kindly pointed out, this is not
portable beyond groff, so we add an extra Makefile variable GNU_ROFF
which you need to enable to get the new quoting.
Thanks also to Miklos Vajna for documentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/Makefile | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/manpage-quote-apos.xsl | 16 |
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index 7a8037f58..7614844ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -103,6 +103,14 @@ ifdef DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP XMLTO_EXTRA += -m manpage-suppress-sp.xsl endif +# If your target system uses GNU groff, it may try to render +# apostrophes as a "pretty" apostrophe using unicode. This breaks +# cut&paste, so you should set GNU_ROFF to force them to be ASCII +# apostrophes. Unfortunately does not work with non-GNU roff. +ifdef GNU_ROFF +XMLTO_EXTRA += -m manpage-quote-apos.xsl +endif + SHELL_PATH ?= $(SHELL) # Shell quote; SHELL_PATH_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(SHELL_PATH)) diff --git a/Documentation/manpage-quote-apos.xsl b/Documentation/manpage-quote-apos.xsl new file mode 100644 index 000000000..aeb8839f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/manpage-quote-apos.xsl @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" + version="1.0"> + +<!-- work around newer groff/man setups using a prettier apostrophe + that unfortunately does not quote anything when cut&pasting + examples to the shell --> +<xsl:template name="escape.apostrophe"> + <xsl:param name="content"/> + <xsl:call-template name="string.subst"> + <xsl:with-param name="string" select="$content"/> + <xsl:with-param name="target">'</xsl:with-param> + <xsl:with-param name="replacement">\(aq</xsl:with-param> + </xsl:call-template> +</xsl:template> + +</xsl:stylesheet> |