From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] intro.texi
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 02:05:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1EB4gP-0004OX-Iq@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92a5eb4705090107224b61e495@mail.gmail.com> (message from Joshua Varner on Thu, 1 Sep 2005 09:22:25 -0500)
Many of your suggested changes are good; I will comment on the ones
that I don't plan to use.
! In Lisp, the symbol @dfn{@code{nil}} has three separate meanings: it
is a symbol with the name @samp{nil}; it is the logical truth value
We don't write @dfn around @code.
@cindex documentation notation
+ @cindex notation, evaluation
+ @cindex notation, documentation
Having two index entries in the same place that start with the same
word is redundant; it would be better to add
@cindex notation
Examples in this manual indicate printed text with @samp{@print{}},
irrespective of where that text goes. The value returned by
! evaluating the form (here @code{bar}) follows on a separate line with
! @samp{@result{}}.
@example
@group
--- 264,271 ----
Examples in this manual indicate printed text with @samp{@print{}},
irrespective of where that text goes. The value returned by
! evaluating the form (in the example below: @code{bar}) follows on a
! separate line with @samp{@result{}}.
Using "here" is conventional, so it is good enough.
@defvar emacs-major-version
The major version number of Emacs, as an integer. For Emacs version
! 20.3, the value is @code{20}.
We don't write @code around values that are numbers.
It looks better not to do so.
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2005-09-01 14:22 [PATCH] intro.texi Joshua Varner
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