Bug#1002501: release-notes: Quotes (" and ') in commands in PDF release notes are "smart" (”*” / ’hold$’) so don't copy/paste

[Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>]

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Hi Alan,

Thanks for your report.

On 23-12-2021 12:34, alan wrote:
> As the subject says really. Quotes (" and ') in commands in the PDF Release
> Notes are "smart"/slanted (e.g. ”*” / ’hold$’) so when commands are copied from
> the pdf and pasted into a shell, they don't work. It's necessary to edit the
> command to put "straight" quotes into the command instead.
>
> (Annoying and unnecessary!)
>
> PDF I used: "Release Notes for Debian 11 (bullseye), 64-bit PC | December 14, 2021"

The release notes are generated with docbook. I spend about an hour to 
find out how to prevent conversion of straight quotes to curly quotes, 
but I failed. I don't know how to fix this bug. The html version get it 
right, so I expect the issue to be in how LaTeX is called. If anybody 
knows how docbook and LaTeX work together and how to fix it, much 
appreciated.

Paul

I tried replacing " with " and " but both were still converted 
to curly quotes.

Paul

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