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> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:18:10 +0100
> Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, eliz@gnu.org, karl@gnu.org,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> Would enhancing the format with some quoting convention really amount to
> a redesign, rather than just being an incremental enhancement?

If you can suggest a quoting convention that doesn't break backward
compatibility, maybe it will qualify as incremental enhancement.  It's
not easy, since currently Info is almost plain text, so any character
can be used in it.