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#8486
24.0.50; manual typos
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Reported by: Sean Sieger <sean.sieger <at> gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:43:02 UTC
Severity: minor
Found in version 24.0.50
Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
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Message #16 received at 8486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:07:37 +0200
> Cc: 8486-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > To repeat the command more than once, type additional `z''s: each
> >
> > ^^^^^^
> > ... has never looked right. `z's' maybe?
>
> Ugly, perhaps, but that's not a typo, isn't it?
Sort of. It comes from the use of @samp{z}'s or similar in Texinfo.
The important part is that this looks right in the printed version of
the manual; the emulation we do in Info is less important. So if the
Texinfo source uses @code{s} or @kbd{s} or anything but @samp, leave
the apostrophe alone; if it uses @samp, remove the apostrophe. That's
because @samp produces single quotes in the printed copy as well,
while the others don't.
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