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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: origin of `notation'
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:55:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83hb22d6ze.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F326B9A37B353A449FC7A09B36835F82DEC2A3@MACE.sppdg.ad>

> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:51:53 -0600
> From: "Buchs, Kevin" <buchs.kevin@mayo.edu>
> 
> My follow-up question is why it is still used for online documentation when emacs can do such wonderful things with fonts in graphical mode. Why not just produce italics or color?

Because no one wrote the code to do that.

Feel free to suggest a patch along these lines to Emacs developers.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-17 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-17 15:51 origin of `notation' Buchs, Kevin
2011-11-17 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-11-14 20:22 Buchs, Kevin
2011-11-14 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-14 21:14   ` Bob Proulx

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