From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Noam Postavsky Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#26299: 24.5; Use of =?UTF-8?Q?`=E2=80=A6'?= in Info Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 10:34:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: <70f7b182-ca55-499c-8afe-6bd4aef370a1@default> <877f373004.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1490884521 10646 195.159.176.226 (30 Mar 2017 14:35:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:35:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 26299@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 30 16:35:16 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ctbAN-0001ox-3u for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 30 Mar 2017 07:34:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.157.80.133 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Mar 2017 07:34:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8-9whPrbJZC0P2yVIkjg5cymWVs X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:131095 Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Drew Adams wrote: > > Maybe Emacs needs to work around the problem (if it can't be > fixed). Maybe if Emacs uses `. . .' instead of `...' that > will stop Texinfo from messing with it. > > (Why would Texinfo have a blanket treatment of ... as =E2=80=A6? > That makes no sense at all. What if the occurrence of ... > is part of code, and NEEDS to be 3 period chars?) Emacs' .texi files use @dots{} in these cases, as (strongly) recommended by the texinfo manual: https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/_0040dots.htm= l An ellipsis (a sequence of dots) would be spaced wrong when typeset as a string of periods, so a special command is used in Texinfo: use the @dots{} command to generate a normal ellipsis, which is three dots in a row, appropriately spaced =E2=80=A6 like so. To emphasize: do not sim= ply write three periods in the input file; that would work for the Info file output, but would produce the wrong amount of space between the periods in the printed manual. I found this thread [1] requesting plain "..." for @dots{} in makeinfo output; there seemed to be no opposition, but I guess it didn't happen. Perhaps try pinging bug-texinfo@gnu.org? [1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2015-07/msg00013.html