Re: documentation punctuation fixes

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Steven" == Steven G Johnson <address@hidden> writes:

>> @samp{"address@hidden"foo"@dots{} `"}.  > +Worse yet, not all shells
>> understand @samp{"address@hidden"foo\"@dots{} `"} the same
>> 
>> Why are the quotes escaped?

Steven> The quotes are escaped because they are inside other quotes in
Steven> a shell string: "...\"foo\"..."

Pfff. Sorry.  Brain was off.


Steven> Another problem: in postscript output, even in the code font
Steven> used for @code{}, @example, and so on, the ' and ` characters
Steven> are being rendered with the wrong glyphs.  They are using the
Steven> "curly" single-quote glyphs, rather than the straight foot and
Steven> backtick glyphs. (The " character is correctly rendered with
Steven> the inch glyph.)  I guess this is a bug in texinfo...

Dunno :)


Steven> The {} is necessary; there should be no space after an
Steven> ellipsis, unless it comes at the end of a sentence.

Ah, OK, thanks.