Excess spaces in info copyrights; inconsistent @copyright{} usage.

Excess spaces in info copyrights; inconsistent @copyright{} usage.

[Andrew M. Scott]

I noticed two anomalies in the current info/texi files:

1. There are excess spaces in the generated Copyright lines in many
   but not all info files; I'm using makeinfo 4.8. This seems to occur
   for files with more than one line of copyright dates.

2. Some of the *.texi files use the @copyright{} construct in their
   copyright lines (e.g. erc.texi), and some don't (e.g. elisp.texi).

Samples:

A. elisp.info snippet:

   This is edition 2.9 of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual,
corresponding to Emacs version 22.0.50.

   Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999,
2000,   2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     ^^^

here is the corresponding snippet from elisp.texi:

Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000,
  2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

A quick spot-check showed similar excess spaces in the info files for
eshell, woman, and ebrowse, but *not* pcl-cvs or message.

B. The space in url.info appears to be due to hard spaces in the
   url.texi file.

C. The erc.texi file is an example of a file using the @copyright{}
   construct (in constrast to elisp.texi):

This manual is for ERC version 5.1.2.

Copyright @copyright{} 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2006-03-07 on chls308

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Andy Scott

Re: Excess spaces in info copyrights; inconsistent @copyright{} usage.

[Michael Olson]

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"Andrew M. Scott" <amscott1@sedona.ch.intel.com> writes:

> I noticed two anomalies in the current info/texi files:
>
> 1. There are excess spaces in the generated Copyright lines in many
> but not all info files; I'm using makeinfo 4.8. This seems to occur
> for files with more than one line of copyright dates.
>
> 2. Some of the *.texi files use the @copyright{} construct in their
> copyright lines (e.g. erc.texi), and some don't (e.g. elisp.texi).

I used @copyright{} in erc.texi because it is used in Section 3.3.1 in
the Texinfo manual.  If this is incorrect, the Texinfo manual should
be updated to that effect.

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Re: Excess spaces in info copyrights; inconsistent @copyright{} usage.

[Karl Berry]

Hi Andrew and all,

    1. There are excess spaces in the generated Copyright lines in many
       but not all info files; I'm using makeinfo 4.8. This seems to occur
       for files with more than one line of copyright dates.

In general, makeinfo (unlike TeX) does not ignore spaces at the
beginning of a line.  Most multiple-line copyrights were indeed indented
in the source:
Copyright ...
  2000, 2001 ...

The two spaces in the input are preserved in the makeinfo output, a
"feature" of makeinfo since inception.  (Probably inherited from
texinfo-format-buffer, I expect.)

Anyway, I removed all such indentations I could find in the Emacs manual
sources, and added an admonition about it in the Texinfo manual.

    2. Some of the *.texi files use the @copyright{} construct in their
       copyright lines (e.g. erc.texi), and some don't (e.g. elisp.texi).

@copyright{} should be used within an @copying block or similar.  Again,
I changed all the occurrences I could find.  (The exception are the @c
copyrights in the subsidiary .texi files; since that text is never
typeset, (C) is preferred there.)

A few manuals still used @ifinfo and the like instead of @copying (also,
@ifnottex should be used around the Top node).  If someone else could
systematically check for and fix that problem, I would be grateful.

Thanks for the report,
Karl