From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Corey Goldberg via RT" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: [gnu.org #181558] format error in html mono web page Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 08:49:28 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: webmasters-comment@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080921275 4038 80.91.224.253 (2 Apr 2004 15:54:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 15:54:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 02 17:54:28 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B9R00-0006es-00 for ; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 17:54:28 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B9R00-0000NY-00 for ; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 17:54:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B9Pb1-00081l-5y for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:24:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B9PFS-0002Fz-Mj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:02:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B9P2D-0008Mp-Tp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 08:49:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.167] (helo=rt.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1B9P2D-0008Ma-30 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 08:48:37 -0500 Original-Received: from www-data by rt.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1B9P32-00039I-7B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 08:49:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk X-RT-Loop-Prevention: gnu.org RT-Ticket: gnu.org #181558 Managed-by: RT 3.0.8 (http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/) RT-Originator: cgoldberg@earthlink.net X-RT-Original-Encoding: utf-8 Original-To: "OtherRecipients of gnu.org Ticket #181558":; X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21199 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21199 Hello. please see below.. this was forwarded to Webmasters by RMS, but it is sort of out of our scope and more in the realm of what emacs-devel does. Can someone take a look at this? regards, Corey (GNU Webmasters) >Subject: [mihu@olympus.net: format error in html mono web page] >Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:41:53 -0500 >To: webmasters@gnu.org >From: Richard Stallman > >------- Start of forwarded message ------- >From: "michael humphrey" >To: > >re: >http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html >This manual is available in the following formats:=20 >formatted in HTML (3124K characters) entirely on one web page.=20 > >this web page has a formatting error under the category >M.7.5.3 Undoing Version Control Actions ... > >starting with the text, >However, it is impossible to unexpand the RCS ... -------------------------------------------- > [karl - Thu Apr 01 20:02:15 2004]: > > > I'm guessing this was a bug in the emacs manual for 21.2, they > probably > wrote $Log$ in the Texinfo source (namely files.texi). In 21.3, >it now says: > However, it is impossible to unexpand the RCS @samp{@w{$}Log$}... > which should avoid the unwanted expansion. > > So, if the online manual was updated to the output for 21.3, it > would be > better. (Not to mention that is obviously desirable anyway.) > > I'm not sure it should be up to webmasters to do this; generally, the > package maintainers are supposed to. But if you feel like it, you > might > try the gendocs.sh script, as described in > http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_25.html > (Of course there are other ways to accomplish the same end.) > > Alternatively, you could bounce it back to emacs-devel@gnu.org. > Surely > someone there would be willing.