doc/goredo.info.do | 3 +--
 makedist.sh        | 4 +---

diff --git a/doc/goredo.info.do b/doc/goredo.info.do
index 55e79353a8d2a8b0c7e306e9a7a1f3065914390f7380d5ddc0127c8bbce511fa..e79836553f559feb0db1a1f088e95c0049dace77845dc4f36a9951430286af79 100644
--- a/doc/goredo.info.do
+++ b/doc/goredo.info.do
@@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ ${MAKEINFO:-makeinfo} \
     -D "VERSION `cat ../VERSION`" \
     --set-customization-variable SECTION_NAME_IN_TITLE=1 \
     --set-customization-variable TREE_TRANSFORMATIONS=complete_tree_nodes_menus \
-    --set-customization-variable CLOSE_QUOTE_SYMBOL=\" \
-    --set-customization-variable OPEN_QUOTE_SYMBOL=\" \
+    --set-customization-variable ASCII_PUNCTUATION=1 \
     --output $3 index.texi
diff --git a/makedist.sh b/makedist.sh
index 71836283d85105bd04196c1cea520511ce484ce0a37566da6d69afaf817907a5..1c9040b8903d5c9507cad50b12d71e20a5ed73988d1acd3e61b7ddc41e7ae8ad 100755
--- a/makedist.sh
+++ b/makedist.sh
@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ EOF
 
 mkinfo() {
     ${MAKEINFO:-makeinfo} --plaintext \
-        --set-customization-variable CLOSE_QUOTE_SYMBOL=\" \
-        --set-customization-variable OPEN_QUOTE_SYMBOL=\" \
+        --set-customization-variable ASCII_PUNCTUATION=1 \
         -D "VERSION `cat ../VERSION`" $@
 }
 
@@ -33,7 +32,6 @@ \input texinfo
 @documentencoding UTF-8
 @settitle NEWS
 @node News
-@unnumbered News
 `sed -n '3,$p' < news.texi`
 @bye
 EOF