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authorThomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>2009-10-22 10:19:06 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-10-22 12:59:50 -0700
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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>
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@@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ all::
#
# Define DOCBOOK_XSL_172 if you want to format man pages with DocBook XSL v1.72.
#
+# Define GNU_ROFF if your target system uses GNU groff. This forces
+# apostrophes to be ASCII so that cut&pasting examples to the shell
+# will work.
+#
# Define NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER if you cannot use Makefiles generated by perl's
# MakeMaker (e.g. using ActiveState under Cygwin).
#