Re: rendering of singlequote

[Gavin Smith]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 10:34:43PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> When I format the GNU C Intro and Reference, singlequote inside @code
> comes out as a comma-like singlequote, rather that the upright singlequote
> I would expect.  This is made with Texinfo 2018-01-09, which is installed
> in Trisquel 11.

Indeed, we did change the default for this.  In Texinfo 7.1 (18 October 2023)
we changed the glyphs for ` and ' inside @code:

 . in @code, ` and ' output by default with backtick and undirected
   single quote glyphs in the typewriter font.  you can still configure
   this using the @codequoteundirected/@codequotebacktick commands.

- as this is the output people are more likely to expect.

If you are using an older version of Texinfo you can get this output by
putting lines in the file:

@codequoteundirected on
@codequotebacktick on

See "Inserting Quote Characters" in the Texinfo manual.