On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 02:01:49PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Control: tag -1 help
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> Thanks for your report.
>
> On 23-12-2021 12:34, alan wrote:
> > As the subject says really. Quotes (" and ') in commands in the PDF Release
> > Notes are "smart"/slanted (e.g. ”*” / ’hold$’) so when commands are copied
> > from
> > the pdf and pasted into a shell, they don't work. It's necessary to edit the
> > command to put "straight" quotes into the command instead.
> >
> > (Annoying and unnecessary!)
> >
> > PDF I used: "Release Notes for Debian 11 (bullseye), 64-bit PC | December
> > 14, 2021"
It's quit a trick to get straight quotes in TeX even if you hand-code the TeX
file.
There's a TeX module calles ascii.something (I forget the file type). It
defines coding for the ascii characters.
I don't know how this relates to Docbook, though.
-- hendrik
>
> The release notes are generated with docbook. I spend about an hour to find
> out how to prevent conversion of straight quotes to curly quotes, but I
> failed. I don't know how to fix this bug. The html version get it right, so
> I expect the issue to be in how LaTeX is called. If anybody knows how
> docbook and LaTeX work together and how to fix it, much appreciated.
>
> Paul
>
> I tried replacing " with " and " but both were still converted to
> curly quotes.
>
> Paul
