From 204d363f5a05bba0bdeb13f96a08d5078dcee820 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Rast Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:19:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/Makefile | 8 ++++++++ Documentation/manpage-quote-apos.xsl | 16 ++++++++++++++++ Makefile | 4 ++++ 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/manpage-quote-apos.xsl diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index 7a8037f58..7614844ef 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)) diff --git a/Documentation/manpage-quote-apos.xsl b/Documentation/manpage-quote-apos.xsl new file mode 100644 index 000000000..aeb8839f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/manpage-quote-apos.xsl @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ + + + + + + + + ' + \(aq + + + + diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index f88ed3e14..797471741 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -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). # -- 2.30.2