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From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changes to windows.texi
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:54:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49160A81.7050208@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uprl6q8hj.fsf@gnu.org>

 >> Here makeinfo (GNU texinfo - 4.8) does not capitalize the S for @xref,
 >> so I was not aware of any such a problem.  Or does it capitalize them
 >> only in the printed manual?
 >
 > It should capitalize them everywhere.  Are you sure it doesn't for
 > you?  Not even at the beginning of a sentence?

Only at the beginning of a sentence.  Anywhere else it does _not_
capitalize them.  But maybe Emacs' Info is more clever here than the
stand-alone reader?

 > I suggest
 >
 >   The default for @var{window} is the selected window.

Fine.  I'll use that.

 >> Are such indentations necessary for formatting or are they a stylistic
 >> convention?
 >
 > I think it's a convention to have the first paragraph of a section not
 > to be indented, and indent all the others, although the manual is not
 > always consistent in this.

It seems to me that more often the first paragraph is indented and the
remaining ones aren't.

 > What makeinfo does is controlled by @firstparagraphindent and
 > @paragraphindent.

Shouldn't `fill-paragraph' be able to DTRT then?

martin




  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-08 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-07 14:31 Changes to windows.texi martin rudalics
2008-11-08 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-08 19:56   ` martin rudalics
2008-11-08 20:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-08 21:54       ` martin rudalics [this message]
2008-11-08 23:07         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-09 15:13           ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-09 18:47             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-10 19:28               ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-09 15:13   ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-09 21:23     ` Eli Zaretskii

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