Re: Types of quotes in xref linkend references

"Pierre Labastie" ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) <[email protected]> Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:44:05 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 2026-03-01 at 05:59 +0000, lfs wrote:
> On Sunday, March 1st, 2026 at 04:59, Xi Ruoyao
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > I tend to use single quotes as they are more friendly to
> > translators.
> 
> 
> That might be worth putting into an LFS style guide.
> 
> Might even be "fun" to track how long it takes for the single-quote 
> count to overtake the doubles, although the singles are clearly
> coming
> from a long way back!
> 

Well, thanks for this thread, because I did not know about this
translation problem with double quotes. Even recently I've been using
double quotes, so single quotes cropping in has been delayed. Will try
to stick to single quotes now...

For grepping, I suppose linkend=['"]... is enough as a regexp...

Pierre

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