@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
2015-12-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+ Fix doc quoting problems with Texinfo 5
+ Without this change, in the info file output Texinfo 5 quotes code
+ in text with undirected single quotes 'like this' and generates
+ code examples that with many PDF readers cannot be cut out of PDFs
+ and pasted into code.
+ * manual/libc.texinfo: Configure the libc manual like the GNU
+ Emacs manual, by using @documentencoding and setting
+ txicodequoteundirected and txicodequotebacktick. This way,
+ Texinfo 5 quotes code in text with directed single quotes ‘like
+ this’ and produces examples that can be cut out of PDFs. This
+ change causes Texinfo 5 to generate info files that contain UTF-8
+ characters in the set {'‘', '’', '“', '”', 'Ä', 'ä', 'ö', '−',
+ '–', '—', '©', '⇒', '•', '…'}, which is OK nowadays.
+
Split large string section; add truncation advice
* manual/examples/strncat.c: Remove.
This example was misleading, as the code would have undefined
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
@comment %**start of header (This is for running Texinfo on a region.)
@setfilename libc.info
@settitle The GNU C Library
+@documentencoding UTF-8
+@c '@codequotebacktick on' and '@codequoteundirected on' require
+@c Texinfo 5.0 or later, so use the older equivalent @set variables
+@c supported in Texinfo 4.11 and later.
+@set txicodequoteundirected
+@set txicodequotebacktick
+
@c setchapternewpage odd
@include macros.texi