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Re: makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this'
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Karl Berry |
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Re: makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this' |
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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:20:42 -0800 |
In HTML, those quotes are “ and ” in
the default case. Is it ok?
Not [lr]squo? Always been traditional to use single quotes for @file
etc.
become U+2018 and U+2019 if enable-encoding is set and
@documentlanguage utf-8 is set too (as discussed recently).
Yes, fine. But the question at hand is about the info/plaintext output
for @file when enable-encoding is *not* set, and/or utf-8 is not
specified,. Up till now, makeinfo in all its forms has output `foo'.
But I guess we have to now change to 'foo'.
Can do too, even though I don't really like that.
I hate this whole move to undirected quotes, personally.
But I already lost that argument.
So, should I proceed with ` becoming ' in ascii in info/Plaintext
output?
I fear so. I can't see any convincing reason for us to refuse.
Currently, in html, ' is changed to ’ and ` to ‘ except if
in @code/@example. I think that it should be kept that way.
I agree. Inside @code/@example is different.
And that output is already controllable with @codequote*, so fine.
For now, ' and ` are not transformed to unicode points, like --- --
`` '' are in text/plaintext/info if enable-encoding is set and
@documentlanguage utf-8 is set too. They are in DocBook, to U+2019
and U+2018. That would seem rather logical to also transform ' and
` to unicode U+2019 and U+2018 in that case too.
I agree.
The XML output should do those transformations too?
Thanks,
k
- makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this', Paul Eggert, 2012/01/23
- Re: makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this', Karl Berry, 2012/01/23
- Re: makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this', Patrice Dumas, 2012/01/25
- Re: makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this', Eli Zaretskii, 2012/01/25
- Re: makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this', Patrice Dumas, 2012/01/25
- Re: makeinfo should quote 'like this' instead of `like this', Eli Zaretskii, 2012/01/25