On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 07:47:19PM +0100, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 11:08:15AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 23:22:27 +0100 > > Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Without double-backticks, Sphinx wrongly turns "--version" into > > > "–version" with a Unicode EN DASH (U+2013), that is visually easy to > > > confuse with a single ASCII dash. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@xxxxxxx> > > > > This certainly seems worth addressing. But I would *really* rather find > > a way to tell Sphinx not to do that rather than making all of these > > tweaks - which we will certainly find ourselves having to do over and > > over again. I can try to look into that in a bit, but if somebody were > > to beat me to it ... :) > > This seems to do the trick: > > diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py > index 3c7bdf4cd31f..8f2a7ae95184 100644 > --- a/Documentation/conf.py > +++ b/Documentation/conf.py > @@ -587,6 +587,9 @@ pdf_documents = [ > kerneldoc_bin = '../scripts/kernel-doc' > kerneldoc_srctree = '..' > > +# Render -- as two dashes > +smartquotes = False I think what Jon was looking for was the ability to selectively turn smartquotes off for a section and then reenable it?
