GNU bug report logs - #44211
26.3; Repeated `` and '' in Info (eintr)`GNU Free Documentation License'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 14:42:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 44211 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 44211 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44211: 26.3; Repeated `` and '' in Info (eintr)`GNU Free
 Documentation License'
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 11:53:02 -0700

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> Dunno whether this is actually a bug, but it seems odd.
>
> In this node you find this text:
>
>  Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
>  Free Documentation License''.
>
> Should the `` and '' perhaps be rendered differently - perhaps as curly
> double quotes?

Agreed, they should probably be marked as the other instances of ``text
quoted like this''.

But the markup seems correct.  Is this a bug in makeinfo perhaps?
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