By default, Sphinx tries to pre-process text through SmartyPants, which attempts to convert ASCII quotes and dashes to Unicode characters. Unfortunately, this mangles technical text such as command lines. For instance, this excerpt from notmuch-tag.rst:
**notmuch** **tag** **--batch** [--input=<*filename*>] got turned into: notmuch tag –batch [–input=<filename>] That's an en-dash and an em-dash respectively. Not only are these characters visually confusing and could easily be mistaken for a single dash, copying and pasting such command lines into a terminal is doomed to result in incomprehensible error messages. * doc/conf.py: Disable SmartyPants. --- doc/conf.py | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py index aa864b3c..0e65413d 100644 --- a/doc/conf.py +++ b/doc/conf.py @@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ html_static_path = [] # Output file base name for HTML help builder. htmlhelp_basename = 'notmuchdoc' +# Disable SmartyPants, as it mangles command lines. +# Despite the name, this actually affects manual pages as well. +html_use_smartypants = False + # -- Options for manual page output --------------------------------------- # One entry per manual page. List of tuples -- 2.13.3 _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch