doc: Disable SmartyPants in generated manual pages

By default, Sphinx tries to pre-process text through SmartyPants,
which attempts to convert ASCII quotes and dashes to Unicode
characters. Unfortunately, this mangles technical text such as command
lines. For instance, this excerpt from notmuch-tag.rst:

  **notmuch** **tag** **--batch** [--input=<*filename*>]

got turned into:

  notmuch tag –batch [–input=<filename>]

That's an en-dash and an em-dash respectively.

Not only are these characters visually confusing and could easily be
mistaken for a single dash, copying and pasting such command lines
into a terminal is doomed to result in incomprehensible error
messages.

* doc/conf.py: Disable SmartyPants.
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Vladimir Panteleev 2017-08-14 06:36:54 +00:00 committed by David Bremner
parent cb5253578d
commit 938ec0f80c

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@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ html_static_path = []
# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
htmlhelp_basename = 'notmuchdoc'
# Disable SmartyPants, as it mangles command lines.
# Despite the name, this actually affects manual pages as well.
html_use_smartypants = False
# -- Options for manual page output ---------------------------------------
# One entry per manual page. List of tuples