From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Double hyphens in variable names. Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 21:03:33 -0400 Sender: bug-texinfo-bounces+gnu-bug-texinfo2=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200310040103.h9413Xq08288@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065229479 5870 80.91.224.253 (4 Oct 2003 01:04:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 01:04:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl, bug-texinfo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-texinfo-bounces+gnu-bug-texinfo2=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 04 03:04:35 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A5aqZ-0005XF-01 for ; Sat, 04 Oct 2003 03:04:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A5aqG-0007mn-FC for gnu-bug-texinfo2@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 21:04:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A5aq8-0007l7-60 for bug-texinfo@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 21:04:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A5apc-0007UE-6t for bug-texinfo@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 21:04:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.61.216.22] (helo=f7.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A5apb-0007Tn-Uc; Fri, 03 Oct 2003 21:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.7-20030920/8.11.7) id h9413Xq08288; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 21:03:33 -0400 Original-To: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu X-BeenThere: bug-texinfo@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Texinfo documentation system List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-texinfo-bounces+gnu-bug-texinfo2=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs:1219 gmane.emacs.devel:16920 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16920 @defvar imenu--index-alist I propose to make the @def... commands do an implicit @code, more or less. The principal change would be the names being printed in typewriter (and typewriter slanted for arguments, I guess). We'd get ligature suppression for free, then. This seems more logical than the roman fonts (bold and slanted) now being used, although the roman fonts are prettier and take less space. Does anyone object to that? It would also be possible to write special-case code to remove ligatures and such (in fact I seem to remember doing something along those lines already for some past bug report), but all in all, the point is that that identifiers is code, so we should print them in typewriter just like other code fragments. k