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Date:   Mon, 24 Feb 2020 10:52:27 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: process: changes.rst: Escape --version to fix
 Sphinx output
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On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 07:47:19PM +0100, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 11:08:15AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 23:22:27 +0100
> > Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Without double-backticks, Sphinx wrongly turns "--version" into
> > > "–version" with a Unicode EN DASH (U+2013), that is visually easy to
> > > confuse with a single ASCII dash.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
> > 
> > This certainly seems worth addressing.  But I would *really* rather find
> > a way to tell Sphinx not to do that rather than making all of these
> > tweaks - which we will certainly find ourselves having to do over and
> > over again.  I can try to look into that in a bit, but if somebody were
> > to beat me to it ... :)
> 
> This seems to do the trick:
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
> index 3c7bdf4cd31f..8f2a7ae95184 100644
> --- a/Documentation/conf.py
> +++ b/Documentation/conf.py
> @@ -587,6 +587,9 @@ pdf_documents = [
>  kerneldoc_bin = '../scripts/kernel-doc'
>  kerneldoc_srctree = '..'
> 
> +# Render -- as two dashes
> +smartquotes = False

I think what Jon was looking for was the ability to selectively turn
smartquotes off for a section and then reenable it?