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| From: | Jacob Bachmeyer |
| Subject: | [bug#59989] [PATCH] tests: Fix txinfo-include test for texinfo 7.x |
| Date: | Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:35:47 -0600 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090807 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0 |
Karl Berry wrote:
Hi Frederic,
Texinfo modified its behavior regarding apostrophes, which are now
replaced by UTF-8 right single quotes by default.
Sorry to hear it, but not surprised.
-GNU's Not Unix.
+@verb{.GNU's Not Unix..}
I don't think there's any guarantee that verb quotes will also be
"helpfully" changed in the future. One wouldn't think so, but ...
There has to be some way to get a straight quote, and verbatim is (as far as I can tell) intended for code examples and similar literal text. Note that TeX has long (always?) converted backtick and apostrophe to left and right quotes, building up double quotes from `` and '', so this change in Texinfo harmonizes Info output with what texinfo.tex has always produced. (There have been a few places in the DejaGnu manual where I have converted ASCII double quotes to TeX style because regular double quotes look seriously out of place in the PDF version.)
So instead, I changed the test document to avoid apostrophes. Pushed the below. Hope it flies. --thanks, karl.
Since this is a test document, that should not be a problem. -- Jacob
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