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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should synopsis handle texinfo markup?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:14:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877f3q8qlp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874lyz396q.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Sat, 11 Mar 2017 22:27:57 +0300")

Hi Alex,

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

> Hello, I've noticed that several packages contain "@code" structures in
> their synopses, but only 'description' field supports texinfo markup.
> For example, look at:
>
>   guix package -s ruby-minitest-bonus-assertions
>
> So I wonder, should these synopses be adjusted to remove @code things,
> or would it be better to make sysnopses support it?

Maybe we should support Texinfo in synopses after all.  I don’t think
there were good reasons not to do it.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-15 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-11 19:27 Should synopsis handle texinfo markup? Alex Kost
2017-03-11 19:34 ` John Darrington
2017-03-15 16:14 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-03-16  8:53   ` Alex Kost
2017-03-16 22:29     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-20 10:52       ` Alex Kost
2017-03-24  9:38         ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-27  7:58           ` Alex Kost

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