Re: https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html
Eric Blake <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.m4.bugs |
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| Organization | Red Hat, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 02/11/2018 12:09 PM, Howard Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > In the m4 documentation web page, for example at > https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html#Comments > <mailto:[email protected]>, the character used for an opening single quote > displays incorrectly. Here is a snapshot: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Your snapshot did not render correctly in plain text. > > > I'm pretty sure what is meant is that the same character is used both > before and after *quoted text* above. No, that is NOT what is meant. > But what appears is a slanted > tick and then a straight tick. Yes, that is correct. > > I think this should read: > > $m4 > > 'quoted text' # 'commented text' Wrong. The default m4 quoting strings are back-tick (`, ASCII 96) for opening quote, and single-quote (', ASCII 39) for closing quote. Yes, they are asymmetrical, and that is intentional. > ... > > > If I disable the style sheet I still see them wrong, so it's not a css > thing: > > > > Also this is not dependent on browser, i.e. Firefox and Chrome both > display this the same. Good - because that's what they are supposed to display. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org