[v3,00/16] Replace some bad characters on documents

Message

Mauro Carvalho Chehab May 16, 2021, 10:18 a.m. UTC

The conversion tools used during DocBook/LaTeX/html/Markdown->ReST 
conversion and some cut-and-pasted text contain some characters that
aren't easily reachable on standard keyboards and/or could cause 
troubles when parsed by the documentation build system.

Replace the occurences of the following characters:

            - U+00a0 (' '): NO-BREAK SPACE
            - U+00ad ('­'): SOFT HYPHEN
            - U+2010 ('‐'): HYPHEN
            - U+2217 ('∗'): ASTERISK OPERATOR
            - U+feff (''): BOM

I'll submit in separate another series to address other character occurrences.

v3:
  - removed curly commas and changed the patch descriptions.
v2:
  - removed EM/EN dashes and changed the patch descriptions.


Mauro Carvalho Chehab (16):
  docs: hwmon: ir36021.rst: replace some characters
  docs: admin-guide: reporting-issues.rst: replace some characters
  docs: trace: coresight: coresight-etm4x-reference.rst: replace some
    characters
  docs: driver-api: ioctl.rst: replace some characters
  docs: driver-api: media: drivers: zoran.rst: replace some characters
  docs: usb: replace some characters
  docs: userspace-api: media: v4l: dev-decoder.rst: replace some
    characters
  docs: userspace-api: media: dvb: intro.rst: replace some characters
  docs: vm: zswap.rst: replace some characters
  docs: filesystems: ext4: blockgroup.rst: replace some characters
  docs: networking: device_drivers: replace some characters
  docs: PCI: acpi-info.rst: replace some characters
  docs: sound: kernel-api: writing-an-alsa-driver.rst: replace some
    characters
  docs: firmware-guide: acpi: dsd: graph.rst: replace some characters
  docs: virt: kvm: api.rst: replace some characters
  docs: RCU: replace some characters

 Documentation/PCI/acpi-info.rst               | 18 ++---
 .../Data-Structures/Data-Structures.rst       | 46 ++++++------
 .../Expedited-Grace-Periods.rst               | 36 +++++-----
 .../Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst              |  2 +-
 .../RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst  | 70 +++++++++----------
 .../admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst          |  2 +-
 Documentation/driver-api/ioctl.rst            |  8 +--
 .../driver-api/media/drivers/zoran.rst        |  2 +-
 Documentation/filesystems/ext4/blockgroup.rst |  2 +-
 .../firmware-guide/acpi/dsd/graph.rst         |  2 +-
 Documentation/hwmon/ir36021.rst               |  2 +-
 .../device_drivers/ethernet/intel/i40e.rst    |  6 +-
 .../device_drivers/ethernet/intel/iavf.rst    |  2 +-
 .../kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst     |  2 +-
 .../coresight/coresight-etm4x-reference.rst   |  2 +-
 Documentation/usb/ehci.rst                    |  2 +-
 Documentation/usb/gadget_printer.rst          |  2 +-
 .../userspace-api/media/dvb/intro.rst         |  4 +-
 .../userspace-api/media/v4l/dev-decoder.rst   |  2 +-
 Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst                | 28 ++++----
 Documentation/vm/zswap.rst                    |  4 +-
 21 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 122 deletions(-)

Comments

David Woodhouse May 17, 2021, 10:48 a.m. UTC | #1

On Sun, 2021-05-16 at 12:18 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> The conversion tools used during DocBook/LaTeX/html/Markdown->ReST 
> conversion and some cut-and-pasted text contain some characters that
> aren't easily reachable on standard keyboards and/or could cause 
> troubles when parsed by the documentation build system.

Better.

But you still don't say *why* it matters whether given characters are
trivial to reach with standard keyboard layouts, or specify *what*
'troubles' the offending characters cause.

Mauro Carvalho Chehab May 17, 2021, 11:24 a.m. UTC | #2

Em Mon, 17 May 2021 11:48:04 +0100
David Woodhouse <[e-mail]> escreveu:

> On Sun, 2021-05-16 at 12:18 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > The conversion tools used during DocBook/LaTeX/html/Markdown->ReST 
> > conversion and some cut-and-pasted text contain some characters that
> > aren't easily reachable on standard keyboards and/or could cause 
> > troubles when parsed by the documentation build system.  
> 
> Better.
> 
> But you still don't say *why* it matters whether given characters are
> trivial to reach with standard keyboard layouts, or specify *what*
> 'troubles' the offending characters cause.

See the patches in the series. The reason for each particular case
is there on each patch, like on this one:

	[PATCH v3 13/16] docs: sound: kernel-api: writing-an-alsa-driver.rst: replace some characters

	The conversion tools used during DocBook/LaTeX/html/Markdown->ReST
	conversion and some cut-and-pasted text contain some characters that
	aren't easily reachable on standard keyboards and/or could cause
	troubles when parsed by the documentation build system.
	 
	Replace the occurences of the following characters:
	
		- U+00a0 (' '): NO-BREAK SPACE
		  as it can cause lines being truncated on PDF output

	Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[e-mail]>


Thanks,
Mauro