On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 11:58:51AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 10:52:27 -0800 > Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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? > > No that's not what I was thinking, actually. Unless somebody can come up > with a good reason to the contrary, just disabling that behavior globally > strikes me as the right thing to do. Well, sometimes -- when the time is right -- I like to use en-dashes. It's probably no great loss, though. grep finds me these interesting examples: Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst:Tree RCU's grace--period memory-ordering guarantees rely most heavily on Documentation/accounting/psi.rst:scarcity aids users in sizing workloads to hardware--or provisioning Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/cppc_sysfs.rst: -r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 feedback_ctrs Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst:task that modifies ``nr_hugepages``. The default for the allowed nodes--when the Documentation/block/null_blk.rst:home_node=[0--nr_nodes]: Default: NUMA_NO_NODE Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst::Copyright: |copy| 1995--1999 Martin Mares, <mj@xxxxxx> Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-srggb10-ipu3.rst: G\ :sub:`0108high`\ (bits 1--0) (in all, 368 lines, but they're not all in .rst files)
