On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:09:46PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Jeff King wrote: > > > But IMHO, using backticks looks much better. In the roff-formatted > > manpages single quotes underline, but backticks use bold. > > Are you sure? My copy of git.1.gz has backticks converted into no > formatting at all: > > Other options are available to control how the manual page is > displayed\&. See > \fBgit-help\fR(1) > for more information, because > git \-\-help \&.\&.\&. > is converted internally into > git help \&.\&.\&.\&.
It's actually optional. See 5121a6d (Documentation: option to render literal text as bold for manpages, 2009-03-27). I don't see a good reason that wasn't made the default early, except conservatism. I've had it enabled for years (though I admit I don't read the manpages that much these days :) ). -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
