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Re: doc/install.texi srcdir clarification
- To: Laurent Guerby <guerby at acm dot org>
- Subject: Re: doc/install.texi srcdir clarification
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 22:03:07 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Laurent Guerby wrote:
> While I'm at it, what to do about complete commands (I assume
> single word commands should use @command)? Texinfo recommands:
>
> * Also, an entire shell command often looks better if written using
> `@samp' rather than `@code'. In this case, the rule is to choose
> the more pleasing format.
>
> Right now, it is sometimes @command, sometimes @code with
> an optional additional ` ' or `` '' around it. Should
> I remove all additional quotes and use @code? Or @samp?
We have @samp in a couple of places (in other texinfo files), but I guess
both are fine; @samp might be slightly preferrable.
And, yes, I believe the quotes should go.
> For envrionment variables (like PATH) I assume I should use @env?
Yep.
Thanks for working on this!
Gerald
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