From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 40900@debbugs.gnu.org, ndame@protonmail.com
Subject: bug#40900: Add face for function params in info
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:03:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834ko7kn68.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnM=jJDd1vibseusEa2fyV87MMFZFCr=6D9O7cj4UbxmQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Wed, 9 Sep 2020 06:22:25 -0700)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 06:22:25 -0700
> Cc: ndame <ndame@protonmail.com>, 40900@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > I think the challenge is to reliably identify the strings that are
> > function parameters. Info files lack the markup that identifies
> > various symbols in the Texinfo sources, and the code which finds
> > function arguments must not err too much, or users will complain.
>
> Isn't this therefore a limitation in Texinfo? We could of course hack
> around it, but it sounds like it would risk being error-prone and hard
> to maintain.
It is a limitation of the Info format produced from Texinfo sources.
For example, HTML format produced from Texinfo still has markup, which
could be used for such features.
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2020-04-27 12:46 bug#40900: Add face for function params in info ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-04-27 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-09 13:22 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-09 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-09-09 15:18 ` Stefan Kangas
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