On 16 February 2017 at 19:02, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Try the "Quoted Text" section of the original asciidoc user manual: > > http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X51 > > Asciidoctor has introduced some new syntax (almost certainly because the > original asymmetric formulations have a bunch of ambiguous corner > cases). By default, it disables the asymmetric versions, but they work > in "compat" mode (and the newer ones do not). I can't say I had the pleasure of using Asciidoctor 0.1.4 or earlier! :) > Git's documentation is all written for the original asciidoc. If you > build it with asciidoctor, it must be done in compat mode. This is the > default when asciidoctor sees a two-line (i.e., underlined) section > title, which all of our manpages have. And I definitely didn't know that, but now I'm glad we went OT! :) Thanks a lot for the clarifications.