From: Daniel M German <dmg@uvic.ca>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: wrong type of quotes in PDF manual
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 21:35:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzhag28k.fsf@uvic.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27692.1210133133@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> (Nick Dokos's message of "Wed, 07 May 2008 00:05:33 -0400")
>> 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)
>>
Hi Nick,
Nick> Unfortunately, this is no help at all to you and will be little
Nick> consolation, but there *is* a note in the Org manual (section 1.3,
Nick> "Activation") that explicitly warns about this, although I don't know
Nick> when it went in:
Nick> <quote>
Nick> Important: If you use copy-and-paste to copy lisp code from the PDF
Nick> documentation as viewed by Acrobat reader to your .emacs file, the
Nick> single quote character comes out incorrectly and the code will not
Nick> work. You need to fix the single quotes by hand, or copy from Info
Nick> documentation.
Nick> </quote>
I read this once sometime ago. And I forgot about it (today I was trying
to update to the latest version of org).
Nick> Also, I tried xpdf and (modulo selecting *all* of the text to be pasted
Nick> which is somewhat problematic, at least in my version of xpdf), I was
Nick> able to paste and save with the quotes intact. So (from my naive point
Nick> of view) it seems that Acroread does indeed mangle things.
I used evince (under ubuntu), so it is not only acroread.
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