Hi Pádraig,
One small thing I noticed while looking over this patch.
Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> writes:
> +Three input formats are supported. Either the "untagged" output format,
> +the "tagged" output format, or the BSD reversed mode format
> +which is similar to the "untagged" output format
This makes Texinfo emit the following:
Either the "untagged" output format, the "tagged"
But using, for example, ``untagged'' will emit:
Either the “untagged” output format, the “tagged”
So, ``...'' will use U+201C (LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK) and U+201D
(RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK). I checked both HTML and PDF outputs.
The Unicode characters look much better, in my opinion, especially in
the PDF.
Since it seems ``...'' is more common than "..." in the manual anyways,
this patch felt obvious enough to commit right away.
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>From 1535ac272e20c6f2deb84e037d95a4148515d566 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Message-ID: <1535ac272e20c6f2deb84e037d95a4148515d566.1751338609.git.collin.fu...@gmail.com>
From: Collin Funk <collin.fu...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:50:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] doc: use ``...'' instead of "..."
* doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation): Use ``...'' for quoting text.
(cksum common options): Likewise.
(Control): Likewise.
---
doc/coreutils.texi | 14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index d7a94e5f8..d49976775 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -3540,7 +3540,7 @@ @node split invocation
10
@end example
-Use the "l/" modifier to suppress that:
+Use the ``l/'' modifier to suppress that:
@example
$ seq -w 6 10 > k; split -nl/3 k; head xa?
@@ -3556,7 +3556,7 @@ @node split invocation
10
@end example
-Use the "r/" modifier to distribute lines in a round-robin fashion:
+Use the ``r/'' modifier to distribute lines in a round-robin fashion:
@example
$ seq -w 6 10 > k; split -nr/3 k; head xa?
@@ -3573,7 +3573,7 @@ @node split invocation
@end example
You can also extract just the Kth chunk.
-This extracts and prints just the 7th "chunk" of 33:
+This extracts and prints just the 7th ``chunk'' of 33:
@example
$ seq 100 > k; split -nl/7/33 k
@@ -4219,9 +4219,9 @@ @node cksum common options
with the legacy output format from the @samp{sysv}, @samp{bsd},
@samp{crc} or @samp{crc32b} algorithms.
-Three input formats are supported. Either the "untagged" output format,
-the "tagged" output format, or the BSD reversed mode format
-which is similar to the "untagged" output format
+Three input formats are supported. Either the ``untagged'' output format,
+the ``tagged'' output format, or the BSD reversed mode format
+which is similar to the ``untagged'' output format
but doesn't use a character to distinguish binary and text modes.
@xref{cksum output modes} for details of these formats.
@@ -15332,7 +15332,7 @@ @node Control
@cindex stick parity
@cindex mark parity
@cindex space parity
-Use "stick" (mark/space) parity. If parodd is set, the parity bit is
+Use ``stick'' (mark/space) parity. If parodd is set, the parity bit is
always 1; if parodd is not set, the parity bit is always zero.
Non-POSIX@. May be negated.
--
2.50.0
