Closes #1126: Fix double-hyphen to en-dash conversion in wrong places such as

command-line option names in LaTeX.

CHANGES

@@ -158,6 +158,8 @@ Bugs fixed
 * Fix text writer not handling visit_legend for figure directive contents.
 * Fix text builder not respecting wide/fullwidth characters: title underline
   width, table layout width and text wrap width.
+* #1126: Fix double-hyphen to en-dash conversion in wrong places such as
+  command-line option names in LaTeX.
 * #1117: Handle .pyx files in sphinx-apidoc.
 * #1111: Fix failure to find uppercase words in search when
   :confval:`html_search_language` is 'ja'. Thanks to Tomo Saito.

sphinx/writers/latex.py

@@ -562,10 +562,12 @@ class LaTeXTranslator(nodes.NodeVisitor):
 
     def visit_desc_name(self, node):
         self.body.append(r'\bfcode{')
+        self.no_contractions += 1
         self.literal_whitespace += 1
     def depart_desc_name(self, node):
         self.body.append('}')
         self.literal_whitespace -= 1
+        self.no_contractions -= 1
 
     def visit_desc_parameterlist(self, node):
         # close name, open parameterlist