From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guidelines for writing Emacs manuals in texinfo?
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 10:27:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmns1u95.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83o9rstyl8.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
>> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 09:01:02 -0700
>>
>> Are there guidelines for writing manuals for Emacs' packages in texinfo?
>> Specifically, conventions for which macros to use where, how to format
>> lists of keybindings or user options, all that stuff?
>
> Look in the Texinfo manual, it explains the GNU guidelines for that.
> Maybe there are a few quirks specific to Emacs, but if there are, I
> couldn't recall them, so they must be minor.
Thanks, I had checked there, but not deeply enough. It looks like the
"Definition Commands" section is what I was after.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-06 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-06 16:01 Guidelines for writing Emacs manuals in texinfo? Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-06 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-06 17:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2017-08-06 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
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