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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/Makefile | |
| parent | ba7e81430a32614982172c7064c01db43f55b4bb (diff) | |
| download | git-204d363f5a05bba0bdeb13f96a08d5078dcee820.tar.gz | |
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/Makefile')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/Makefile | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index 7a8037f586..7614844efa 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)) |