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Am 16.03.2010 23:59, schrieb Max Battcher:
> E.R. Uber wrote:
>> When discussing long command line options like 
>> 
>>     --version 
>> 
>> they seem to be rendered in HTML with a single hyphen as in
>> 
>>     -version
>> 
>> In source code markup they are rendered as desired (--version).
>> 
>> What is the trick to get them to be rendered with a double hyphen?
> 
> That is smartypants attempting to make your text typographically nicer 
> (the -- is converted to an "en dash", which is more appropriate than a 
> normal hyphen in some cases).
> 
> As you noticed, smartypants shouldn't touch "literal" sections (such as 
> source code). (Although there are buggy, common versions of smartypants 
> out there that mistakenly do, and if that was your problem it is a 
> simple matter of upgrading.)
> 
> The best way to deal with this particular instance is to use an inline 
> reST literal, which would be to quote the command line option in 
> double-backquotes as in ``--version``.

Or, with the dedicated markup :option:`--version`.

Georg
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