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[Bug other/33549] makeinfo drops hyphens from srcdir path



------- Comment #3 from skunk at iskunk dot org  2008-02-12 20:46 -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> 
> I think it's a bug in makeinfo that it does this, and should be fixed 
> there.

That was my first thought as well, but consider that the conversion from "--"
to "-" (and "---" to "--") makes sense from a typographic standpoint. A "--" is
used to indicate an en-dash, which in Info is rendered as a plain hyphen,
whereas a "---" is an em-dash, rendered as "--". Changing the Makeinfo behavior
would affect the appearance of the final text.

Consider other cases, too: what if the srcdir path contains a "@"?


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