[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 5/5] docs: networking: device_drivers: fix bad usage of UTF-8 chars

Jonathan Corbet corbet at lwn.net
Tue May 11 18:24:52 UTC 2021


Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch> writes:

>> -monitoring tools such as ifstat or sar –n DEV [interval] [number of samples]
>> +monitoring tools such as `ifstat` or `sar -n DEV [interval] [number of samples]`
>
> ...
>
>>  For example: min_rate 1Gbit 3Gbit: Verify bandwidth limit using network
>> -monitoring tools such as ifstat or sar –n DEV [interval] [number of samples]
>> +monitoring tools such as ``ifstat`` or ``sar -n DEV [interval] [number of samples]``
>
> Is there a difference between ` and `` ? Does it make sense to be
> consistent?

This is `just weird quotes`
This is ``literal text`` set in monospace in processed output.

There is a certain tension between those who want to see liberal use of
literal-text markup, and those who would rather have less markup in the
text overall; certainly, it's better not to go totally nuts with it.

jon


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