On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 02:01:49PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
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Hi Alan,
Thanks for your report.
On 23-12-2021 12:34, alan wrote:
As the subject says really. Quotes (" and ') in commands in the PDF Release Notes are "smart"/slanted (e.g. ”*” / ’hold$’) so when commands are copied from
the pdf and pasted into a shell, they don't work. It's necessary to edit the
command to put "straight" quotes into the command instead.
(Annoying and unnecessary!)
PDF I used: "Release Notes for Debian 11 (bullseye), 64-bit PC | December 14, 2021"
It's quit a trick to get straight quotes in TeX even if you hand-code the TeX file.
There's a TeX module calles ascii.something (I forget the file type). It defines coding for the ascii characters.
I don't know how this relates to Docbook, though.
-- hendrik
The release notes are generated with docbook. I spend about an hour to find out how to prevent conversion of straight quotes to curly quotes, but I failed. I don't know how to fix this bug. The html version get it right, so
I expect the issue to be in how LaTeX is called. If anybody knows how
docbook and LaTeX work together and how to fix it, much appreciated.
Paul
I tried replacing " with " and " but both were still converted to curly quotes.
Paul
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