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From: Zefram <zefram@tao.co.uk>
To: schaefer@brasslantern.com (Bart Schaefer)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Use of tt() formatting in yodl doc sources
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 18:50:13 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199806041750.SAA16744@taos.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <980604102222.ZM13930@candle.brasslantern.com> from "Bart Schaefer" at Jun 4, 98 10:22:22 am

Bart Schaefer wrote:
>That means that if the yodl source looks like:
>
>	with the SUBJECT `tt(subscribe) var(<e-mail-address>)'
>
>then it displays in info as:
>
>	with the SUBJECT ``subscribe' <E-MAIL-ADDRESS>'

I consider this to be a bug in makeinfo.  The resulting info files are
ambiguous and misleading.  But since that's how info files are defined
to be, there's nothing we can reasonably do about it.

-zefram


  reply	other threads:[~1998-06-04 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-06-04 17:22 Bart Schaefer
1998-06-04 17:50 ` Zefram [this message]
1998-06-05  7:32 ` Peter Stephenson
1998-06-05  8:44   ` Bart Schaefer
1998-06-05 10:11     ` Zefram

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