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bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:46:24 +0300 |
> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:04:18 +0300
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> CC: 20385@debbugs.gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu
>
> On 04/23/2015 11:03 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> Who are those people, and why do they want that?
> >
> > Those who follow Markus Kuhn's advice, read here:
> >
> > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
>
> I think that's typographical advice, and not necessarily applicable to
> text editors.
Nevertheless, many people want Texinfo, Emacs, and GNU in general to
follow that advice.
> It's pretty common to use slightly awkward (but easy to type and
> unambiguous) markup in source code, and then convert it to something
> nicer in generated documentation.
I personally have no problem with the traditional `..' quoting style,
I'm just trying to explain why IMO display-time tricks will not
necessarily pacify at least some of those who want the ‘..’ style.
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, (continued)
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Drew Adams, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/24
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Drew Adams, 2015/04/24
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/24
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Artur Malabarba, 2015/04/24
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Nicolas Petton, 2015/04/21
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Stefan Monnier, 2015/04/21
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/04/21
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/04/22
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Ivan Shmakov, 2015/04/21
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/21
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Ivan Shmakov, 2015/04/21
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/21