linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code

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Message-ID: <20190628203841.723ccd9c@heffalump.sk2.org>
Date:   Fri, 28 Jun 2019 20:38:41 +0200
From:   Stephen Kitt <steve@....org>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:10:21 -0600, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 15:59:38 +0200
> > The current ReStructuredText formatting results in "--", used to
> > indicate the end of the kernel command-line parameters, appearing as
> > an en-dash instead of two hyphens; this patch formats them as code,
> > "``--``", as done elsewhere in the documentation.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@....org>  
> 
> A worthy fix, I've applied it.  This seems like the sort of annoyance that
> will bite us over and over, though.  We might want to find a more
> comprehensive way to turn this behavior off.

Right, looking further shows a large number of places where -- is handled
incorrectly. The following patch disables this “smart” handling wholesale;
I’ll follow up (in the next few days) with patches to use real em- and
en-dashes where appropriate.

Regards,

Stephen

From 3b10d01decfec38a124be75739b398a3dcd9d5ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Kitt <steve@....org>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 20:34:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output

The handling of dashes in particular results in confusing
documentation in a number of instances, since "--" becomes an
en-dash. This disables SmartyPants wholesale, losing smart quotes
along with smart dashes.

With Sphinx 1.6 we could fine-tune the conversion, using the new
smartquotes and smartquotes_action settings.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@....org>
---
 Documentation/conf.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index 7ace3f8852bd..966dbdfafcd1 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ html_context = {
 
 # If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
 # typographically correct entities.
-#html_use_smartypants = True
+html_use_smartypants = False
 
 # Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
 #html_sidebars = {}
-- 
2.11.0


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