From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: makeinfo 4.7 Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:23:31 +0100 Message-ID: <20060826142331.GB1286@muc.de> References: <20060826081149.GA1286@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156598386 20781 80.91.229.2 (26 Aug 2006 13:19:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:19:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 26 15:19:45 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGy4a-0006qT-Gi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:19:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGy4Z-0005Ry-UX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:19:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GGy4M-0005KH-Fd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:19:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GGy4K-0005DL-1q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:19:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGy4J-0005D5-TW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:19:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.149.48.1] (helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GGyCp-0005SP-5D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:28:11 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 91944 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2006 13:19:20 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (HELO localhost.localdomain) (Debian-exim@193.149.49.134) by mail.muc.de with SMTP; 26 Aug 2006 13:19:20 -0000 Original-Received: from acm by localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 4.50) id 1GGz4N-0001iY-9w; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:23:31 +0100 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:58917 Archived-At: Hi, Eli! On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 08:46:53AM -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Eli Zaretskii > > Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:15:46 -0400 > > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk > > > Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:11:49 +0100 > > > From: Alan Mackenzie > > > Cc: "Kim F. Storm" , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > cc-mode.texi uses @headitem, which was also first introduced in > > > Texinfo 4.7. How many other manuals also use 4.[78] features? > > If someone can run "make info" with makeinfo 4.2, we will know for > > sure. > I just did try that, and these two manuals are the only ones that fail > to build with makeinfo 4.2. cc-mode uses @headitem and @tie, and rcirc > uses @indicateurl. > So I think it should be fairly easy to fix the manuals and avoid > forcing more people to gratuitously upgrade their Texinfo > installations. Personally, I hate it when a new package I install (in > this case Emacs) requires me to upgrade a whole slew of other packages > for no good reason; I certainly wouldn't want us to do that to others. I can certainly empathise wholeheartedly with that. ;-) @w can be used instead of @tie. Is there a canonical backwards compatible equivalent of @headitem? Perhaps @b round each word? -- Alan.