Sphinx's smartquotes feature was rewriting -- to en-dash, "" to proper
English quotes etc. This was messing up syntax at unpredictable places.
Disable this feature instead of attempting to escape all the places in
the manual.
# The master toctree document.
master_doc = "index"
+smartquotes = False
+
# -- Options for HTML output -------------------------------------------------
# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages. See the documentation for