From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated] Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:23:34 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4F190866.4070806@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20120118.161204.348826368.wl@gnu.org> <20248.15413.907023.894588@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <4x1uqv4pbx.fsf_-_@fencepost.gnu.org> <056566D61BA5441E860782777E736F44@us.oracle.com> <4F18A26A.1020402@cs.ucla.edu> <87y5t35b5b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327040633 6752 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2012 06:23:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:23:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Ulrich Mueller' , Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 20 07:23:49 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ro7t6-0000Ts-VH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:23:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48126 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ro7t6-0008TM-0k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:23:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57617) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ro7t2-0008TD-Ju for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:23:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ro7t1-0005ll-Eg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:23:44 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:55782) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ro7t1-0005da-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:23:43 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2579CA60006; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:23:34 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Jf4h1B2LwStm; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:23:33 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.10] (pool-71-189-109-235.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.109.235]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DA324A60001; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:23:32 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111124 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <87y5t35b5b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147756 Archived-At: On 01/19/12 19:02, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > "Of course" is easy for a human to say; do you have code to implement > it automatically? No, it will require a human-assisted pass over the sources, to determine which instances of ` are for quoting English text, and which are for other purposes. This can be partly automated, but in general some human judgment is required to change the quoting style to one that's recommended by the GNU coding standards. I've done this for other GNU projects; it wasn't that much work. I expect Emacs will be somewhat harder, but it won't be too hard.