Re: possible single-quote bug in PDF docs (was: trouble with Imenu integration)

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Jul 16, 2010, at 10:21 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:

> On Jul 16,2010, at 10:36 AM, David Maus wrote:
>
>>> Following the instructions from manual, I have this near the end  
>>> of my startup file (I hope that is copied correctly):
>>
>>> 	(add-hook ’org-mode-hook
>>> 		   (lambda () (imenu-add-to-menubar "Imenu")))
>>
>> Um... Wrong type of quote?  It's
>> 'org-mode-hook (ASCII 39)
>> not
>> ’org-mode-hook (Unicode 8217)
>
> Yep. When there wasn't an obvious answer, I found the same thing.  
> Thank you regardless, David. What effect is it that the incorrect  
> character has on the LISP processing? The error returned was related  
> the name of the variable...
>
> Also, I guess this is a possible bug in the documentation: Looks  
> like the single quote in the PDF version of the manual is Unicode  
> 8217. (And of course I copied and pasted, to avoid getting anything  
> wrong when I typed it!) Would that be something worth correcting? I  
> have this vague notion that I've encountered it elsewhere. The HTML  
> version of the manual is rendered correctly, but the PDF is not, I  
> think. A quick scan suggests this — the renderer turns all the  
> single quotes into curly quotes, even when they are being used in  
> code.

Yes.  Unfortunately I don't know a way to fix this.

- Carsten