From 2ebc8dc3b6a46a0dff928dd43a2530e9fdb35b20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 22:43:32 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix curved quotes in printed manual * doc/emacs/text.texi (Quotation Marks): Fix curved quote characters in the printed version of the manual. --- doc/emacs/text.texi | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/emacs/text.texi b/doc/emacs/text.texi index 948abc3a960..1f53992f10b 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/text.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/text.texi @@ -424,22 +424,31 @@ beginning of a line. @cindex curved quotes @cindex guillemets @findex electric-quote-mode +@c The funny quoting below is to make the printed version look +@c correct. FIXME. One common way to quote is the typewriter convention, which quotes using straight apostrophes @t{'like this'} or double-quotes @t{"like this"}. Another common way is the curved quote convention, which uses -left and right single or double quotation marks @t{‘like this’} or -@t{“like this”}. In text files, typewriter quotes are simple and +left and right single or double quotation marks `@t{like this}' or +``@t{like this}''@footnote{ +The curved single quote characters are U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION +MARK and U+2018 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK; the curved double quotes +are U+201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK and U+201D RIGHT DOUBLE +QUOTATION MARK. On text terminals which cannot display these +characters, the Info reader might show them as the typewriter ASCII +quote characters. +}. In text files, typewriter quotes are simple and portable; curved quotes are less ambiguous and typically look nicer. @vindex electric-quote-chars Electric Quote mode makes it easier to type curved quotes. As you -type characters it optionally converts @t{`} to @t{‘}, @t{'} to @t{’}, -@t{``} to @t{“}, and @t{''} to @t{”}. It's possible to change the +type characters it optionally converts @t{`} to ‘, @t{'} to ', +@t{``} to ``, and @t{''} to ''. It's possible to change the default quotes listed above, by customizing the variable @code{electric-quote-chars}, a list of four characters, where the items correspond to the left single quote, the right single quote, the left double quote and the right double quote, respectively, whose -default value is @code{'(?‘ ?’ ?“ ?”)}. +default value is @code{'(?@r{`} ?@r{'} ?@r{``} ?@r{''})}. @vindex electric-quote-paragraph @vindex electric-quote-comment @@ -460,7 +469,7 @@ To toggle it globally, type type @kbd{C-q `} or @kbd{C-q '} instead of @kbd{`} or @kbd{'}. To insert a curved quote even when Electric Quote is disabled or inactive, you can type @kbd{C-x 8 [} for @t{‘}, @kbd{C-x 8 ]} for -@t{’}, @kbd{C-x 8 @{} for @t{“}, and @kbd{C-x 8 @}} for @t{”}. +@t{’}, @kbd{C-x 8 @{} for ``, and @kbd{C-x 8 @}} for ''. @xref{Inserting Text}. Note that the value of @code{electric-quote-chars} does not affect these keybindings, they are not keybindings of @code{electric-quote-mode} but bound in -- 2.39.5