From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: wrong type of quotes in PDF manual Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 00:05:33 -0400 Message-ID: <27692.1210133133@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <1210118985.7223.21.camel@aluminium> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jtaw7-0001uL-5i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 00:07:23 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jtavs-0001lX-Au for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 00:07:22 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=32859 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jtavs-0001lS-2F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 00:07:08 -0400 Received: from qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.56]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jtavp-0007jk-P3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 00:07:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from "Daniel M. German" of "Tue, 06 May 2008 17:09:45 PDT." <1210118985.7223.21.camel@aluminium> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: dmg@uvic.ca Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Daniel M. German wrote: > > This is a minor "bug". The PDF document uses a different type of quote > than what emacs expects. For instance, if I cut and paste from the > manual I get this: > > ... > May I suggest to replace ' with (quote ) in the manual? This error was > tricky to track, as these quotes look very similar within emacs (I am > using emacs23) > Unfortunately, this is no help at all to you and will be little consolation, but there *is* a note in the Org manual (section 1.3, "Activation") that explicitly warns about this, although I don't know when it went in: Important: If you use copy-and-paste to copy lisp code from the PDF documentation as viewed by Acrobat reader to your .emacs file, the single quote character comes out incorrectly and the code will not work. You need to fix the single quotes by hand, or copy from Info documentation. Also, I tried xpdf and (modulo selecting *all* of the text to be pasted which is somewhat problematic, at least in my version of xpdf), I was able to paste and save with the quotes intact. So (from my naive point of view) it seems that Acroread does indeed mangle things. Nick