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Re: [PATCH, ADA, DOC] PR 15479: texinfo markup fixes in Ada manuals
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf dot Wildenhues at gmx dot de>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:16:13 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH, ADA, DOC] PR 15479: texinfo markup fixes in Ada manuals
- References: <20080224093224.GA5538@ins.uni-bonn.de> <20080224230419.GA5251@ins.uni-bonn.de> <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802250058320.11964@pulcherrima.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <20080225072142.GA6047@ins.uni-bonn.de>
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Well, a metasyntactic variable with a space in its name looks kind of
> bad, too. I can just change it to @var{filename}, but there is precedent
> for hyphenation in "info texinfo var" and other manuals, e.g. the Libtool
> one. OK?
I honestly don't feel strongly about this (and sorry for initially missing
this questions), just wanted to point it out.
>> At one point we have xx which probably should be @var{xx}? This
>> predates your patch, but while we are at it... ;-)
> Hmm, I found quite a few of those now. Enough to warrant a separate
> patch (sorry).
No objection; thanks for tackling this kind of consistency issue!
Gerald