From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: kyle@kyleam.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-26 07ea5ef99a: Fix reference style in org.texi
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:35:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o9po1epp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59D35512.4090702@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:14:58 +0200)
> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:14:58 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC: kyle@kyleam.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> While my manual says that
>
> As a general rule, you should write a period or comma immediately
> after an `@ref' command with two or more arguments.
>
> If there is no such following punctuation, `makeinfo' will generate a
> (grammatically incorrect) period in the Info output; otherwise, the
> cross-reference would fail completely, due to the current syntax of
> Info format.
>
> so it apparently is less rigid in this case, my texinfo does not insert
> a period in the output here.
For some reason, I don't see the above as "less rigid".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-03 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-02 0:45 emacs-26 07ea5ef99a: Fix reference style in org.texi Kyle Meyer
2017-10-02 6:46 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-02 13:18 ` Kyle Meyer
2017-10-02 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-03 9:14 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-03 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-10-04 9:03 ` martin rudalics
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