Re: Types of quotes in xref linkend references

On 3/1/26 1:44 AM, Pierre Labastie ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing 
List) wrote:
> 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...

Of course there are times when double quotes are needed.  For instance in gedit
we have: echo "Building $packagedir"  Single quotes do not work there, but that 
situation is not common.

   -- Bruce

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