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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 /Makefile | |
| 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>
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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). # |