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[bug#59989] [PATCH] tests: Fix txinfo-include test for texinfo 7.x


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
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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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