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
next prev parent 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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