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25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals)

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 35885 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35885: 25.2; Few mistakes in Emacs Manual (+ proposals)
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2019 11:31:05 +0300

> Cc: 35885 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 23:19:56 +0200
> 
>  > Another idea is that maybe texinfo somehow doesn't recognize “ and ”
>  > and uses ASCII approximations?
> 
> Small update.  The thing about quotes not being recognized may be good
> idea, because when you compile:
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> \usepackage[OT4]{fontenc}
> \begin{document}
> {\ttfamily “like this”}
> \end{document}
> 
> with OT4 or OT1 you will get \like this", but when you use 'T1' you
> will get l/r double quotation marks.  So the problem may be in font
> encoding.
> 
> As for straight apostrophe and grave accent someone who knows tex
> should look into @kbd{} and @samp{} and @code{} to find what they
> have, so they can display straight apostrophe and grave accent in
> typewriter shape (i.e. not making them curved), and just apply the
> code to @t{}.

I'll leave this to someone who knows TeX.

> I also found in MODES.TEXI - L210:
> -example, it requotes text typed @t{`like this'} to text @t{‘like
> +example, it requotes text typed @kbd{`like this'} to text @t{‘like
> You may fix it just like you did in BASIC.TEXI.

Fixed, thanks.

>   >> But if you really want to go with how Unicode docs do it, then:
>   >> U+201D @sc{right double quotation mark}
>   >
>   > OK, done.
> 
> Cool, except you need to correct Unicode code for right single
> quotation mark form U+2018 to U+2019 (Quotation Marks chapter -
> footnote).

Fixed.

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