From: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
Cc: Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl, emacs-devel@gnu.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu,
bug-texinfo@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org
Subject: Re: Double hyphens in variable names.
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 10:34:16 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031005.103416.189731293.wl@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1A5uzW-0005dT-JJ@fencepost.gnu.org>
> This seems more logical than the roman fonts (bold and slanted)
> now being used, although the roman fonts are prettier and take
> less space.
>
> That sounds like a substantial change for the worse.
I agree.
> One other alternative is to use a fixed width font but slightly
> smaller than the roman font now used. That might use little or no
> extra space. It would have a drawback too, in reducing the
> visibility of the function name, but it still could be better
> overall than using a fixed width font of the same size.
As already mentioned, it is ugly.
A TeXnical solution: Make the hyphen character active in @def... like
in this example:
a - a -- a --- a
\let\hyphen=-
\catcode`\- \active
\def-{\hyphen{}}
a - a -- a --- a
I don't know how tricky this is to add, but a quick look into
texinfo.tex shows that only @code changes the category code of the
hyphen locally.
Werner
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-05 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-04 1:03 Double hyphens in variable names Karl Berry
2003-10-04 22:35 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-05 0:53 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-05 10:36 ` Stepan Kasal
2003-10-05 8:34 ` Werner LEMBERG [this message]
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2003-10-07 7:57 David PONCE
2003-10-06 9:26 David PONCE
2003-10-06 9:06 David PONCE
2003-10-06 9:18 ` Lute Kamstra
2003-10-07 5:32 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-07 6:57 ` Lute Kamstra
2003-10-04 1:03 Karl Berry
2003-10-04 3:51 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-01 13:53 Lute Kamstra
2003-10-02 5:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-02 8:43 ` Lute Kamstra
2003-10-02 13:18 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-02 15:11 ` Lute Kamstra
2003-10-02 16:00 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-02 16:14 ` Lute Kamstra
2003-10-02 16:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-10-02 17:25 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-03 1:50 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-03 2:13 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-03 3:45 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-02 19:04 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-03 8:39 ` Lute Kamstra
2003-10-03 16:18 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-03 19:37 ` Lute Kamstra
2003-10-03 18:33 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-03 18:42 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-03 19:46 ` Lute Kamstra
2003-10-04 10:47 ` David Ponce
2003-10-06 7:11 ` Lute Kamstra
2003-10-06 23:19 ` Juri Linkov
2003-10-07 9:08 ` Lute Kamstra
2003-10-03 19:42 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-03 21:19 ` Juri Linkov
2003-10-02 14:07 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-02 19:15 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-02 18:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
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