On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 09:51:30PM +0000, Fabrizio Cucci wrote: > > Some people use the matched backtick/single-quote to emulate the > > non-symmetric start/end quotes used in traditional typography (and in > > fact, ``foo'' in languages like asciidoc are typically rendered using > > smart-quotes). > > I definitely didn't know about the use of them in traditional typography! > But I couldn't find any example of non-symmetric quotes in AsciiDoc...
Grep for "``" in Git's documentation directory, and you will see many examples (asciidoc only accepts the double-quote form, not singles). You can also try: echo "this is \`\`quoted'' text" >foo.txt asciidoc foo.txt and then open "foo.html" in your browser. > > I don't know how much we care about standardizing that punctuation. > > I mentioned it was very minor but, still, in my opinion a project like > Git deserves consistent punctuation! :) I think patches would be welcome, but as Junio said, it probably should wait for the next cycle. -Peff
