From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Should synopsis handle texinfo markup? Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 23:29:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87d1dgua7v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874lyz396q.fsf@gmail.com> <877f3q8qlp.fsf@gnu.org> <874lyt38nk.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33134) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1codth-0002eK-ST for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:29:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1codte-0004Nj-LH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:29:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <874lyt38nk.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:53:03 +0300") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Alex Kost Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Alex Kost skribis: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s (2017-03-15 17:14 +0100) wrote: > >> Hi Alex, >> >> Alex Kost 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=E2=80=99t = think >> there were good reasons not to do it. >> >> Thoughts? > > I'm not aware of potential problems so I think it would be good to add > this support to synopses. Cool. Would you or anyone like to give it a try? Alternatively we can mail it to bug-guix for later. Ludo=E2=80=99.