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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee•org>
Cc: "GitList" <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: fix 'git status --help' character quoting
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:02:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy4sa1pct.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq38ai34bh.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:54:10 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:

> "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee•org> writes:
>
>> From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox•com>
>> ...
>>> I think it is just the font. I just opened the above page with
>>> Chrome and futzed the text from '0' to '0123456789' to see how it
>>> look.  That round thing is consistent with how other digits are
>>> rendered.
>>>
>>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JunioCHamano/posts/dzNXV2FwP6K
>>>
>>> (sorry for a URL to plus)
>>>
>>>> https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-status.html
>>>> (which IIUC is out of date) has an unformatted 0.
>>> --
>>
>> I've just had a look at how it formats when the zero is back-tick
>> quoted s /ASCII 0/ASCII `0`/ and it looks OK with both Chromium and
>> Firefox on my hack Ubuntu laptop - the character is colourised and
>> full sized, and the --man page output looks unchanged and clearly a
>> zero.
>>
>> my hacky attempt at an in-line patch (squash in?) below:
>
> You'd need a matching change to 34 in the same document to preserve
> the consistency the original patch sought, though ;-)

Not that I think such a change makes much sense.

If there was a way to force use of a font whose numerals and I/O are
more clearly distinguishable and we do so for all HTML documents we
generate, that would be a good change that is not limited to these
places, though.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-20 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-19 14:17 [PATCH] doc: fix 'git status --help' character quoting Philip Oakley
2014-10-19 22:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-20 10:46   ` Philip Oakley
2014-10-20 11:31     ` Philip Oakley
2014-10-20 17:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-20 19:28       ` Philip Oakley
2014-10-20 19:54         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-20 20:02           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-10-21 22:08             ` Philip Oakley

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