From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel M German Subject: Re: wrong type of quotes in PDF manual Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 21:35:55 -0700 Message-ID: <87tzhag28k.fsf@uvic.ca> References: <1210118985.7223.21.camel@aluminium> <27692.1210133133@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> Reply-To: dmg@uvic.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtbPr-00059T-Da for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 00:38:07 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JtbPi-00058y-Dr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 00:38:06 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41924 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JtbPi-00058s-7n for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 00:37:58 -0400 Received: from tungsten.cs.uvic.ca ([142.104.68.122] helo=mn.cs.uvic.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JtbPg-0002XZ-BL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 May 2008 00:37:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <27692.1210133133@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> (Nick Dokos's message of "Wed, 07 May 2008 00:05:33 -0400") 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: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> 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> 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> 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. -- -- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org/ http://silvernegative.com/ dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .