Re: Faces for strong, emph and friends in Info?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 07:49:10 -0700
> 
> At present Info renders:
>   - @emph{foo} as _foo_
>   - @strong{foo} as *foo*

That's inaccurate.  It's makeinfo that produces these "renderings",
info.el just shows them as they are in the Info file.

>     Would be nice if it could use faces, would save me having to listen
>     to "star bold star" -- and would likely look nicer to those looking
>     at the screen.
> 
>     info.el defines faces for various structural contructs but there
>     appears to be no info-strong and info-emph -- is that intentional or
>     just a lay-over from the time we didn't have font faces?

I think it's just that no one has written the code to show *foo* and
_foo_ as italics and bold (and hide the _ and * characters).  Of
course, this will cause some lines be shorter or longer than they are
supposed to be, but maybe this is a worthwhile price to pay.

Patches welcome.