Re: Reasons to not use quote signs directly?
- To: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org
- Cc: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
- Subject: Re: Reasons to not use quote signs directly?
- From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 12:55:30 -0700
- Message-id: <[🔎] 874m485d1p.fsf@hope.eyrie.org>
- In-reply-to: <20160925142131.arrsspygbzhzwwbb@gaara.hadrons.org> (Guillem Jover's message of "Sun, 25 Sep 2016 16:21:31 +0200")
- References: <20160919163049.GA27815@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal> <20160920235910.ewk2ejmlx2sghe7w@gaara.hadrons.org> <20160925142131.arrsspygbzhzwwbb@gaara.hadrons.org>
Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
> Can use B<man>(N) instead of L<man(N)>. Which might be needed anyway
> to reduce the amount of fuzzy strings. The same to using I<> instead
> of the more semantic F<>.
I'd definitely prefer to make L<man(N)> do the right thing instead, since
it would be nice to allow, say, a smart HTML converter to do proper links
between man pages.
> Seems to be really needed, mostly to markup verbatim blocks, otherwise
> the formatting would need to be dropped. :/
What sort of verbatim formatting problems have you run into?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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