From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: info Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:08:50 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044425351 20601 80.91.224.249 (5 Feb 2003 06:09:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 06:09:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18gIk9-0005M8-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:09:09 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18gIsa-0005ti-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:17:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gIki-0007Pd-04 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 01:09:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gIkP-0007Ly-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 01:09:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gIkL-0007HD-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 01:09:25 -0500 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gIkJ-0007E0-00; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 01:09:20 -0500 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA15899; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:08:51 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Richard Stallman In-Reply-To: Original-cc: karl@freefriends.org Original-cc: Luc Teirlinck X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11379 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11379 On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Richard Stallman wrote: > Not an actual example, but an example I gave before with some newlines > removed. Everything depends on the likelihood of such examples > occurring on practice. Especially the missing newline before the > "Footnotes" line (the only problem) looks ugly to me. > > I agree, and I would say that is bad Texinfo style. > It is possible that the Texinfo manual says so. The "Footnotes" line is generated by makeinfo from the @footnote directives in the Texinfo source. So if it stands in the way of what RET should do in marginal cases, we should change makeinfo to do what we want (and take into account that until the new makeinfo unseats the older versions, some manuals will cause Info to fail in these marginal cases).