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[Bug other/33549] makeinfo drops hyphens from srcdir path
- From: "skunk at iskunk dot org" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 12 Feb 2008 20:46:43 -0000
- Subject: [Bug other/33549] makeinfo drops hyphens from srcdir path
- References: <bug-33549-8784@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>
- Reply-to: gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org
------- 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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