From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: ruediger@c-plusplus.de, 16439@debbugs.gnu.org, sva-news@mygooglest.com
Subject: bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:53:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83eh41gwlr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738khzs5c.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, ruediger@c-plusplus.de, 16439@debbugs.gnu.org, sva-news@mygooglest.com
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:54:39 +0200
>
> >> Most optional features in Emacs are grouped into "packages".
> >>
> >> Should "packages" be highlighted as a string. Of course not.
> >
> > Why not? This particular example is produced from @dfn in Texinfo,
> > which should emphasize its argument. In the printed version
> > "packages" is typeset in slanted typeface (and without the quotes).
>
> It makes sense to emphasize either 1) using quotes and no additional
> highlighting or 2) using italic without the quotes, but not both styles
> (italic and quotes) at the same time.
I agree, and didn't say anything to the contrary. I told about the
slant typeface as an evidence that what came out of @dfn should be
emphasized in some way.
> >> There is no additional emphasis on quotations in books.
> >
> > But we are not talking about books, are we? We are talking about Info
> > manuals, which are mostly documentation of software.
>
> Ideally, the look of on-line documentation should not differ from
> the printed version.
We are not talking about ideals.
> But actually I see no much need in replacing Texinfo as the source format.
> As for the output format, we could try to migrate in the direction of HTML.
> However, HTML has its own problems (no index, slow rendering, etc.)
Indeed, and I wasn't asking to switch.
This was only about emphasizing quoted strings in Info manuals.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-21 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-14 10:15 bug#16439: [feature request] Highlighting of strings within Info buffers Sebastien Vauban
2014-01-14 14:34 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-01-14 20:05 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-20 9:18 ` Juri Linkov
2014-01-20 14:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-18 14:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-20 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-21 7:54 ` Juri Linkov
2014-01-21 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-01-22 8:09 ` Juri Linkov
2014-01-22 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-20 18:06 ` Drew Adams
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